Incidentalomas are associated with an increase in liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis: a single-center retrospective study

Table 4 Univariate Cox proportional hazards regression analysis for predicting liver transplantation

	HR	2.5%	97.5%	p-value
Age, per 1 year	1.0000	0.9900	1.0100	0.9172
Age [18,40) years	0.9100	0.6800	1.2200	0.5397
Age [40,50) years	0.9000	0.6900	1.1800	0.4552
Age [50,65) years	1.1500	0.9700	1.3700	0.0993
Age ≥ 65 years	0.9300	0.7700	1.1200	0.9300
Male Sex	1.2800	1.0700	1.5300	0.0075
BMI, per 1 kg/m²	0.9900	0.9800	1.0100	0.3536
Obesity	0.9500	0.8000	1.1300	0.5819
White	0.8800	0.6700	1.1400	0.3303
African American	0.8557	0.6300	1.4700	0.8557
Asian	0.9364	0.5800	1.8200	0.9364
Other Race	1.3800	0.9400	2.0200	0.0963
Hispanic/Latino	1.3600	0.9900	1.8800	0.0611
History of Moderate Alcohol Use	1.5200	1.2400	1.8800	< 0.0001
Ever smoked	1.2100	1.0200	1.4400	0.0293
Sodium, per 1 mmol/L	0.9300	0.9100	0.9500	< 0.0001
Total Bilirubin, per 1 mg/dL	1.1500	1.1300	1.1700	< 0.0001
INR, per 1 point	2.5300	2.1800	2.9400	< 0.0001
Creatinine, per 1 mg/dL point	1.3300	1.1500	1.5500	0.0001
MELD, per 1 point	1.1200	1.1100	1.1400	< 0.0001
MELD ≥ 18	2.8309	2.3151	3.4616	< 0.0001
MELD ≥ 26	2.5241	1.8162	3.5080	< 0.0001
Etiology of Cirrhosis	1.2900	1.1300	1.4600	< 0.0001
NASH	0.8300	0.6800	1.0100	0.0636
Hepatitis C	1.0700	0.8800	1.3100	0.5049
Alcohol	1.5600	1.2700	1.9100	< 0.0001
History of prior TIPS	1.1500	0.8000	1.6500	0.4422
Binary Time-Dependent Variable
Incidentaloma Discovered	1.3126	1.0858	1.5869	0.0050

P values significant at p < 0.05 are bolded in the accompanying tables
BMI body mass index, INR international standardized ratio, MELD model for end-stage liver disease, NASH non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, TIPS transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

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