marginally significantP = 0.05
The interaction of the BCKA/BCAA ratio with sex was marginally significant ( P = 0.05); sex-stratified analysis then revealed that BCKA/BCAA was associated with steatosis grade in female participants (OR [95% CI], 1.7 [1.2–2.3], P = 0.002), but the association was completely absent in the male cohort (OR [95% CI], 1.0 [0.7–1.5], P = 0.9) ( Supplemental Figure 1 ).