Plasma Levels of K18 Fragments Do Not Correlate with Alcoholic Liver Fibrosis.

Gut Liver · 2019 · PMC6346996 · PMID 29976035

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There was a trend that mean M30 levels were higher among patients with significant fibrosis (≥F2) (mean, 674 U/L; SD, 679) compared to patients without significant fibrosis (F0 and F1) (mean, 411 U/L; SD, 552), but this failed to reach significance (p=0.06).

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