TY - JOUR AU - Cheung, Ching-Lung AU - Lam, Karen SL AU - Wong, Ian CK AU - Cheung, Bernard MY PY - 2014 DA - 2014/09/10 TI - Non-invasive score identifies ultrasonography-diagnosed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and predicts mortality in the USA JO - BMC Medicine SP - 154 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Several non-invasive prediction scores for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have been developed, but their performance has not been compared and validated in the same population, and whether these prediction scores can predict clinical outcomes remains unknown. In this study, we aimed to validate and compare the performance of four NAFLD prediction scores: fatty liver index, hepatic steatosis index, lipid accumulation product, and NAFLD liver fat score (LFS), and to evaluate the ability of the best NAFLD prediction score to predict mortality. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0154-x DO - 10.1186/s12916-014-0154-x ID - Cheung2014 ER -