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2013

Adult; article; BARD score; cholesterol blood level; clinical assessment; female; human; international normalized ratio; liver biopsy; liver fibrosis; major clinical study; male; named inventories

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Prediction Of Advanced Fibrosis In Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: An Enhanced Model Of Bard Score., Tae Hoon Lee, Seung Hye Han, Ju Dong Yang, Donghee Kim, Monjur Ahmed May 2013

Prediction Of Advanced Fibrosis In Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: An Enhanced Model Of Bard Score., Tae Hoon Lee, Seung Hye Han, Ju Dong Yang, Donghee Kim, Monjur Ahmed

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

UNLABELLED: BACKGROUNDAIMS: The BARD score is a model to detect advanced liver fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients. The aims of this study were to identify additional factors and then to build an enhanced version of the BARD score.

METHODS: One hundred seven patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD were enrolled retrospectively. Logistic regressions were performed to identify independent risk factors for advanced liver fibrosis (stage 3 or 4). An enhanced model of the BARD score (BARDI score) was built and evaluated with a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

RESULTS: In multivariate analysis, age (odds ratio [OR], 0.89; p=0.04), aspartate …