| Literature DB >> 31574313 |
Charmaine Fu1, Janae Wentong Wai1, Nik Raihan Nik Mustapha2, Marie Irles3, Grace Lai-Hung Wong4, Sanjiv Mahadeva5, Sarah Shili3, Anthony Wing-Hung Chan6, Wassil Merrouche3, Henry Lik-Yuen Chan4, Juliette Foucher3, Brigitte Le Bail7, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong4, Wah Kheong Chan8, Victor de Lédinghen9.
Abstract
Because only a minority of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have advanced fibrosis and would eventually develop liver-related complications, current guidelines recommend initial assessment with noninvasive tests of fibrosis.1-3 Most previous studies focused on overweight and obese patients. Despite a strong association between obesity and NAFLD, 3%-30% of people with relatively normal body mass index (BMI) may still have NAFLD.4,5 Hence, this study aims to evaluate the performance of the common noninvasive tests in non-obese (BMI <25 kg/m2) and obese (BMI ≥25 kg/m2) NAFLD patients.Entities:
Year: 2019 PMID： 31574313 DOI： 10.1016/j.cgh.2019.09.027
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol ISSN： 1542-3565 Impact factor: 11.382