Clinical and biochemical features of diagnosed and undiagnosed patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: The majority of the world's metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) patient population remain undiagnosed. Whether the clinical and biochemical features of these individuals resemble those with an established diagnosis of MASLD remains to be determined. The aim of this study was to document and compare the demographics, associated metabolic comorbidities, liver biochemistry, and non-invasive markers of hepatic fibrosis and portal hypertension in diagnosed versus undiagnosed MASLD patients. Methods: The two study cohorts consisted of 3,101 MASLD patients attending a tertiary care centre (diagnosed) and 408 individuals with MASLD identified as a result of volunteering in a community-based MASLD screening clinic (undiagnosed). Results: <0.00001). BMIs were similar in the two cohorts. The prevalence and extent of liver transaminases (ALT and AST) and function test (albumin, bilirubin, and INR values) abnormalities were greater in diagnosed MASLD patients as were non-invasive determinants of hepatic fibrosis and portal hypertension (higher FIB-4 values and lower platelet counts, respectively). Conclusions: The demographics, metabolic co-morbidities, and severity of liver disease differ in diagnosed versus undiagnosed MASLD patients.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".