Low Accuracy of FIB-4 and NAFLD Fibrosis Scores for Screening for Liver Fibrosis in the Population

Graupera, Isabel; Thiele, Maja; Serra‐Burriel, Miquel; Caballería, Llorenç; Roulot, Dominique; Lai‐Hung Wong, Grace; Fabrellas, Núria; Neil Guha, Indra; Arslanow, Anita; Barranco Expósito, Carmen; Hernández, Rosario; P. Aithal, Guruprasad; R. Galle, Peter; Pera, Guillem; Wai‐Sun Wong, Vincent; Lammert, Frank; Ginès, Pere; Castéra, Laurent; Krag, Aleksander

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2021.12.034

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Low Accuracy of FIB-4 and NAFLD Fibrosis Scores for Screening for Liver Fibrosis in the Population

Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology • Dec 28, 2021

Authors:

Isabel Graupera

Maja Thiele

Miquel Serra‐Burriel

Abstract

Background & Aims Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) and the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease fibrosis score (NFS) are the 2 most popular noninvasive blood-based serum tests proposed for widespread fibrosis screening. We therefore aimed to describe the accuracy of FIB-4 and NFS to detect elevated liver stiffness as...

Subject

Medicine

Liver fibrosis

Fibrosis

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