Prevalence of clinically significant liver fibrosis in the general population: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Although important, clinically significant liver fibrosis is often overlooked in the general population. We aimed to examine the prevalence of clinically significant liver fibrosis using noninvasive tests (NITs) in the general population.

Methods

We collected data from four databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library, and KoreaMed) from inception to June 13, 2023. Original articles reporting the prevalence of clinically significant liver fibrosis in the general population were included. The Stata metaprop function was used to obtain the pooled prevalence of liver fibrosis with NITs in the general population.

Results

We screened 6,429 articles and included 45 eligible studies that reported the prevalence of clinically significant liver fibrosis in the

SUBMITTER: Kim HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11493351 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature