Research Article
Latent Class Analysis of Noninvasive Methods and Liver Biopsy in Chronic Hepatitis C: An Approach without a Gold Standard
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of included patients.
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Data expressed as median [interquartile range] or absolute (%). ALT, alanine transaminase; APRI, aspartate-to-platelet-ratio-index; AST, aspartate transaminase; BMI, body mass index; ELF, enhanced liver fibrosis; GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase; TE, transient elastography. Castéra et al. [19], Wai et al. [20], and Fernandes et al. [21] cut-offs were used for fibrosis staging based on transient elastography, APRI, and ELF, respectively. |