Ultrasound shear wave elastography and liver fibrosis: A Prospective Multicenter Study

Table 5 Significance of predictive values associated with key pre-identified variables

	F0-3 vs F4	F0-2 vs F3-4	F0-1 vs F2-4	F0 vs F1-4
SWE median	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	0.0003	0.0002
APRI score	NS1	0.0404	NS	NS
Age	NS	NS	NS	NS
Gender	NS	NS	NS	NS
Steatosis	NS	0.0263	0.0002	0.0007
AUROC	0.926	0.962	0.944	0.902

¹NS: Not significant at the 0.1 level. SWE: Shear wave elastography; APRI: Aminotransferase platelet ratio index; AUROC: Area under the receiver operating characteristic.