Title: Analysis of the association between dietary patterns and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
in a county in Guangxi
Version: 2 Date: 03 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
In this manuscript, the authors evaluated the association between dietary patterns and
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease through a FFQ survey. The divided all participants into three
groups according to their dietary patterns, traditional Chinese, Western, and cereal-potato dietary
patterns, and found that the dietary patterns are correlated with the risk of NAFLD. The
followings are my concerns:
1. The association between dietary pattern and risk of NAFLD had been extensively studied,
therefore, the author should highlight the novelty of this study.
2. It is good if the author could give the suggestions for daily diet to reduce the risk of NAFLD.
3. Page 2, Line 67, “Therefore” is illogical.
4. Page 5, Table 1, and Page 6, Line 219, “read meet”, the author may mean “red meet”.
5.  In the entire manuscript, the author sometimes use upper case of “P”, sometimes they use
lower case, please make it consistent. The “p” value usually is lower case and italic.
6. Page 5, Line 186, please delete the comments.
7. Page 6, Line 200, “They had plenty of physical exercise”, is that possible for the author to
explain the criteria for “plenty”?
8. Please correct the content Tables 2, 3 and 4, such as “NAFLD, n (%)” is the header of Table
3, but the data is not show this way, same thing happened in Table 4. The author should indicate
how they calculate the percentage in these tables clearly.
9.  It seems the author mention model 1 of Table 6 in the text, not model 2. Please explain why
the author list the model 2 here.
Title: Analysis of the association between dietary patterns and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
in a county in Guangxi
Version: 2 Date: 03 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
In this manuscript, the authors evaluated the association between dietary patterns and
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease through a FFQ survey. The divided all participants into three
groups according to their dietary patterns, traditional Chinese, Western, and cereal-potato dietary
patterns, and found that the dietary patterns are correlated with the risk of NAFLD. The
followings are my concerns:
1. The association between dietary pattern and risk of NAFLD had been extensively studied,
therefore, the author should highlight the novelty of this study.
2. It is good if the author could give the suggestions for daily diet to reduce the risk of NAFLD.
3. Page 2, Line 67, “Therefore” is illogical.
4. Page 5, Table 1, and Page 6, Line 219, “read meet”, the author may mean “red meet”.
5.  In the entire manuscript, the author sometimes use upper case of “P”, sometimes they use
lower case, please make it consistent. The “p” value usually is lower case and italic.
6. Page 5, Line 186, please delete the comments.
7. Page 6, Line 200, “They had plenty of physical exercise”, is that possible for the author to
explain the criteria for “plenty”?
8. Please correct the content Tables 2, 3 and 4, such as “NAFLD, n (%)” is the header of Table
3, but the data is not show this way, same thing happened in Table 4. The author should indicate
how they calculate the percentage in these tables clearly.
9.  It seems the author mention model 1 of Table 6 in the text, not model 2. Please explain why
the author list the model 2 here.
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Analysis of the association between dietary patterns and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
in a county in Guangxi
Version: 2 Date: 03 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
In this manuscript, the authors evaluated the association between dietary patterns and
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease through a FFQ survey. The divided all participants into three
groups according to their dietary patterns, traditional Chinese, Western, and cereal-potato dietary
patterns, and found that the dietary patterns are correlated with the risk of NAFLD. The
followings are my concerns:
1. The association between dietary pattern and risk of NAFLD had been extensively studied,
therefore, the author should highlight the novelty of this study.
2. It is good if the author could give the suggestions for daily diet to reduce the risk of NAFLD.
3. Page 2, Line 67, “Therefore” is illogical.
4. Page 5, Table 1, and Page 6, Line 219, “read meet”, the author may mean “red meet”.
5.  In the entire manuscript, the author sometimes use upper case of “P”, sometimes they use
lower case, please make it consistent. The “p” value usually is lower case and italic.
6. Page 5, Line 186, please delete the comments.
7. Page 6, Line 200, “They had plenty of physical exercise”, is that possible for the author to
explain the criteria for “plenty”?
8. Please correct the content Tables 2, 3 and 4, such as “NAFLD, n (%)” is the header of Table
3, but the data is not show this way, same thing happened in Table 4. The author should indicate
how they calculate the percentage in these tables clearly.
9.  It seems the author mention model 1 of Table 6 in the text, not model 2. Please explain why
the author list the model 2 here.
assistant