Clinical and laboratory characteristics of the 118 Italian children with NAFLD stratified by the rs35761398 CNR2 SNP encoding for the Q63R CB2 protein variant.

Values are expressed as means ± standard deviations or as numbers and percentages. Mean values are compared by analysis of ANOVA. GLM analysis including gender, age, waist circumference and HOMA-IR as covariates has been used to compare continuous variables. Abbreviations: BMI: Body Mass Index; HOMA-IR: homeostatic model of assessment of insulin resistance; ISI: insulin sensitivity index; IGT: Impaired Glucose Tolerance; ALT: alanine transaminase; AST: aspartate transaminase; Gamma-GT: Gamma-Glutamyl transferase.