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Age as a Confounding Factor for the Accurate Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Advanced NAFLD Fibrosis

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The NFS and FIB-4 scores have similar accuracy for advanced fibrosis in patients aged >35 years, however, the specificity forAdvanced fibrosis is unacceptably low in patients ages aged ≥65 years, resulting in a high false positive rate.
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This article is published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 463 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Confounding.

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MAFLD: A Consensus-Driven Proposed Nomenclature for Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease.

TL;DR: Experts reached consensus that NAFLD does not reflect current knowledge and metabolic (dysfunction) associated fatty liver disease "MAFLD" was suggested as a more appropriate overarching term and opens the door for efforts from the research community to update the nomenclature and sub-phenotype the disease in order to accelerate the translational path to new treatments.
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Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Disease in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

TL;DR: The current state of the noninvasive assessment of liver disease in NAFLD is summarized, and an expert synthesis of how these nonin invasive tools could be utilized in clinical practice is provided.
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Comparison of laboratory tests, ultrasound, or magnetic resonance elastography to detect fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: MRE and SWE may have the highest diagnostic accuracy for staging fibrosis in NAFLD patients, and among the four noninvasive simple indexes, NFS and FIB‐4 probably offer the best diagnostic performance for detecting AF.
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 2020: The State of the Disease

TL;DR: An update is provided on the epidemiology, clinical and prognostic features, and diagnostic approach to patients with NAFLD, with a view to targeting resources to those who need it most.
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Progression of NAFLD to diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease or cirrhosis.

TL;DR: The evidence that suggests NAFLD is a multisystem disease and the factors that might determine interindividual variation in the development and progression of its major hepatic and extrahepatic manifestations are reviewed.
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Diagnosis of fibrosis and cirrhosis using liver stiffness measurement in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

TL;DR: Transient elastography is accurate in most NAFLD patients and is useful as a screening test to exclude advanced fibrosis, and liver biopsy may be considered in patients with liver stiffness of at least 7.9 kPa.
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Pitfalls of liver stiffness measurement: a 5-year prospective study of 13,369 examinations.

TL;DR: In the authors' experience, liver stiffness measurements are uninterpretable in nearly one in five cases, the principal reasons are obesity, particularly increased waist circumference, and limited operator experience.
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Comparison of noninvasive markers of fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

TL;DR: The FIB4 index is superior to 7 other non invasive markers of fibrosis in patients with NAFLD; however its performance characteristics highlight the need for even better noninvasive markers.
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