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SUBMITTER: Seko Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7603133 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seko Yuya Y Yano Kota K Takahashi Aya A Okishio Shinya S Kataoka Seita S Okuda Keiichiroh K Umemura Atsushi A Yamaguchi Kanji K Moriguchi Michihisa M Tanaka Saiyu S Itoh Yoshito Y
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 20201019 10
In patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), liver fibrosis is the predictive factor for liver-related events and prognosis. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate longitudinal changes in the FIB-4 index and to determine a strategy for diagnosing and following patients with NAFLD using this index. We analyzed the FIB-4 index at baseline and after 1 and 5 years in 272 consecutive patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD. Of these, 52 patients underwent serial biopsies. The change in th ...[more]