Association between monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and hepatic steatosis: evidence from NHANES 2017-2020.

Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol · 2026 · PMC12887351 · PMID 41675314

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highly significantP<0.001actually significant

All subgroups showed a highly significant positive association (all P<0.001), indicating that elevated Ln(MLR) is consistently and strongly linked to increased MASLD risk across the entire study population.

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did not reach statistical significanceP=0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

However, the log-likelihood ratio test comparing the single linear model with the two-piecewise model did not reach statistical significance (P=0.06), indicating that the segmented model was not significantly superior to the linear model.

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