Clinical utility of the MAF-5 score for assessing MAFLD/MASLD in a Japanese population with obesity.

Diabetol Int · 2026 · PMC12824083 · PMID 41585324

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Finally, ROC curve analysis for predicting significant fibrosis demonstrated that the AUC for the MAF-5 score was higher than that for the FIB-4 index, although the difference did not reach statistical significance (0.849 (95% CI 0.723–0.975) vs. 0.634 (95% CI 0.450–0.818), p = 0.065) (Fig. 2 ).

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