| Cirrhosis complications | Patients with GMD | Patients without GMD | P |
| - Ascitic decompensation | 77.7% | 75% | 0.82 |
| - Hepatic encephalopathy | 37.7% | 37.5% | 0.98 |
| - Bleeding oesophageal varices | 36.5% | 33.3% | 0.78 |
| - Hepatocellular carcinoma | 21% | 25% | 0.67 |
| - Bacterial infections | 54.8% | 45.8% | 0.47 |