Total, direct and indirect effects with 95% CI of the association between the fatty liver index and the risk of type 2 diabetes within EPIC-Potsdam^a.

GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase a women: n = 1439, men: n = 1046 The exposure was defined as FLI categories (<30, 30-<60, ≥60); waist circumference was transformed by adding up the median waist circumference with the residuals obtained from a linear regression of waist circumference and BMI which was adjusted for age at baseline, education (no vocational training or in training, vocational training, technical school, technical college or university), occupation (sedentary, standing, (heavy) manual work), smoking behavior (never smoker, ex-smoker, current smoker <20 units/day, current smoker ≥20 units/day), sport activities (no sport, ≤4 h/week, >4 h/week), biking (no biking, <2.5 h/week, 2.5–4.9 h/week, ≥5 h/week), alcohol intake (women: no alcohol intake, >0–6 g/day, >6–12 g/day, >12–24 g/day, >24–60 g/day, >60 g/day; men: no alcohol intake, >0–6 g/day, >6–12 g/day, >12–24 g/day, >24–60 g/day, >60–96 g/day, >96 g/day), coffee consumption (ml/day), red meat intake (g/day), intake of whole-grain bread (g/day). Total, direct and indirect effects with 95% CI of the association between the fatty liver index and the risk of type 2 diabetes within EPIC-Potsdama.