Diagnostic Accuracy of Transient Elastography in Hepatosteatosis in Youth With Obesity.

Emir Tas Divya Sundararajan Jaclyn S LoNazeen MorelliYesenia Garcia-Reyes Meredith A WareHaseeb RahatXiawei Ou Xiaoxu Na Shikha S Sundaram Cameron Severn Laura L Pyle Elisabet Børsheim Mary Ellen Vajravelu Radhika MuzumdarJonathan A DranoffMelanie Cree Green

Published in: Journal of the Endocrine Society (2024)

CAP of 281 dB/m has modest diagnostic performance for hepatosteatosis compared with MRI in youth with significant obesity. A higher CAP in youth with PCOS suggests that comorbidities might affect optimal CAP in hepatosteatosis diagnosis.

Keyphrases

mental health
physical activity
insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
young adults
weight loss
type diabetes
high fat diet induced
weight gain
magnetic resonance imaging
body mass index
computed tomography
liver fibrosis
magnetic resonance
cerebral ischemia
brain injury
blood brain barrier