Utility of FibroScan-based scoring systems to narrow the risk group of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with comorbidities
Kouichi Miura, Hiroshi Maeda, Naoki Morimoto, Shunji Watanabe, Mamiko Tsukui, Yoshinari Takaoka, Hiroaki Nomoto, Rie Goka, Kazuhiko Kotani, Hironori Yamamoto
Kouichi Miura, Hiroshi Maeda, Naoki Morimoto, Shunji Watanabe, Mamiko Tsukui, Yoshinari Takaoka, Hiroaki Nomoto, Rie Goka, Hironori Yamamoto, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke 329-0498, Tochigi, Japan
Kazuhiko Kotani, Division of Community and Family Medicine, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke 329-0498, Japan
Author contributions: Miura K designed the study and performed acquisition, analysis, interpretation of data, and drafted the initial manuscript; Maeda H participated in acquisition and analysis of data; Morimoto N participated in acquisition of data; Watanabe S participated in acquisition of data; Tsukui M participated in acquisition of data; Takaoka Y participated in acquisition of data; Nomoto H participated in acquisition of data; Goka R participated in acquisition of data; Kotani K, a specialist of biostatistics, reviewed the statistical analysis and revised the draft carefully; Yamamoto H revised the draft carefully.
Institutional review board statement: The present study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Jichi Medical University (20-175).
Informed consent statement: A written informed consent was waived because of the retrospective nature of this study. Instead, opt-out consent documents were shown on the website of Jichi Medical University for patients who did not wish to participate in the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflict of interest to report.
Data sharing statement: The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy policies.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Kouichi Miura, Doctor, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke 329-0498, Tochigi, Japan. miura385@jichi.ac.jp
Received: January 8, 2022
Peer-review started: January 8, 2022
First decision: March 9, 2022
Revised: March 21, 2022
Accepted: May 14, 2022
Article in press: May 14, 2022
Published online: May 22, 2022
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