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Validated Early Detection Metrics Could Narrow Liver Fibrosis Screening Without Losing Clinical Signal
By MedXY|Jun 19, 2026
A validation study suggests current liver fibrosis screening criteria are too broad. A refined risk-based approach reduced eligibility from 60–76% to 10–22% of adults while improving the yield of elevated liver stiffness and predicting futu