Thierry Poynard, Valérie Paradis, Jimmy Mullaert, Olivier Deckmyn, Nathalie Gault, Estelle Marcault, Pauline Manchon, Nassima Si Mohammed, Beatrice Parfait, Mark Ibberson, Jean-Francois Gautier, Christian Boitard, Sébastien Czernichow, Etienne Larger, Fabienne Drane, Jean Marie Castille, Valentina Peta, Angélique Brzustowski, Benoit Terris, Anais Vallet-Pichard, Dominique Roulot, Cédric Laouénan, Pierre Bedossa, Laurent Castera, Stanislas Pol, Dominique Valla
BACKGROUND: One of the unmet needs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the prediction of non-alcoholic liver disease by non-invasive blood tests, for each of the three main histological features, fibrosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and steatosis. AIMS: To validate externally the performances of a recent panel, Nash-FibroTest, for the assessment of the severity of fibrosis stages, NASH grades and steatosis grades. METHODS: We prospectively analysed 272 patients with T2DM...
October 2021: Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics