Table 2 Characteristics of the population in the Canadian primary care sentinel surveillance network database.

From: A Systematic Machine Learning Based Approach for the Diagnosis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Risk and Progression

Predictors

Findings

Demographic (Gender, Age)

Male, sample size (%)

287964 (43)

Female, sample size (%)

379561, (57)

Male age mean ±SD,Years

47.2 ± 25.1

Female age mean ± SD,Years

49.5 ± 24.8

Vital Signs/ clinical measures

Diastolic BP mean ± SD, mm Hg

73.3 ± 12.4

Systolic BP, mean ± SD, mm Hg

121.9 ± 16.9

Unknown disease frequency (%)

393344 (59)

COPD frequency (%)

15926 (2.4)

Dementia frequency (%)

12007 (1.8)

Depression frequency (%)

62682 (10)

Diabetes Mellitus frequency (%)

40637 (6)

Epilepsy frequency (%)

5553 (0.8)

Hypertension frequency (%)

88615 (13)

Osteoarthritis frequency (%)

47606 (7)

Parkinson’s Disease frequency (%)

1825 (0.2)

Lab Values

FG, mean ± SD, mmol/L

5.54 ± 1.91

Triglycerides, mean ± SD, mmol/L

1.43 ± 1.21

HDL, sample size, mean ± SD, mmol/L

1.38 ± 0.41

BMI, mean ± SD, kg/m2

26.54 ± 7.37

  1. SD, standard deviation; BP, Blood Pressure, BMI, body mass index, FG, Fasting glucose, HDL, high-density lipoprotein, COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  2. *Some patients have more than 1 disease in the database.
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