Kazuhiro Nouso, Miwa Kawanaka, Hideki Fujii, Kazuya Kariyama, Hidenori Toyoda, Michihiro Iwaki, Hideki Hayashi, Satoshi Oeda, Hideyuki Hyogo, Asahiro Morishita, Kensuke Munekage, Kazuhito Kawata, Tsubasa Tsutsumi, Koji Sawada, Tatsuji Maeshiro, Hiroshi Tobita, Yuichi Yoshida, Masafumi Naito, Asuka Araki, Shingo Arakaki, Takumi Kawaguchi, Hidenao Noritake, Masafumi Ono, Tsutomu Masaki, Satoshi Yasuda, Eiichi Tomita, Masato Yoneda, Akihiro Tokushige, Yoshihiro Kamada, Hirokazu Takahashi, Shinichiro Ueda, Shinichi Aishima, Yoshio Sumida, Atsushi Nakajima, Takashi Kumada, Takeshi Okanoue
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Because the accuracy of the Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index for predicting liver fibrosis changes with age, the need for different cut-offs in various age groups has frequently been discussed. We developed the age-independent score, the Fibrosis-3 (FIB-3) index, and have shown its usefulness in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). This study aimed to validate the diagnostic ability of the FIB-3 index to predict fibrosis progression using a large new patient cohort...
April 25, 2024: Hepatology Research: the Official Journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology