showed a trendP = .067
Patients harbouring at least one TA ‐allele had a lower MELD (9 (8‐12) vs 10 (8‐13) points; P = .003) and showed a trend towards lower HVPG (16 ± 6 vs 17 ± 7 mmHg; P = .067).
Patients harbouring at least one TA ‐allele had a lower MELD (9 (8‐12) vs 10 (8‐13) points; P = .003) and showed a trend towards lower HVPG (16 ± 6 vs 17 ± 7 mmHg; P = .067).
Among males, there was a numerical trend towards lower serum testosterone levels in patients harbouring a TA allele, which did not attain statistical significance ( TA/TA : 3.75 ± 2.03 vs T/TA : 4.95 ± 3.62 vs T/T : 5.65 ± 3.02; P = .339; Figure S4). 4 DISCUSSION Recently, a study linking exome sequence data from the DiscovEHR cohort 13 to electronic health records reported, that the HSD17B13 rs72613567 T > TA variant is associated with reduced risks of ALD/NAFLD as well as alcoholic and non‐alcoholic cirrhosis.