Validating a non-invasive, ALT-based non-alcoholic fatty liver phenotype in the million veteran program.

<h4>Background & aims</h4>Given ongoing challenges in non-invasive non-alcoholic liver disease (NAFLD) diagnosis, we sought to validate an ALT-based NAFLD phenotype using measures readily available in electronic health records (EHRs) and population-based studies by leveraging the cli...

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Main Authors: Marina Serper, Marijana Vujkovic, David E Kaplan, Rotonya M Carr, Kyung Min Lee, Qing Shao, Donald R Miller, Peter D Reaven, Lawrence S Phillips, Christopher J O'Donnell, James B Meigs, Peter W F Wilson, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Henry R Kranzler, Amy C Justice, John M Gaziano, Sumitra Muralidhar, Saiju Pyarajan, Scott L DuVall, Themistocles L Assimes, Jennifer S Lee, Philip S Tsao, Daniel J Rader, Scott M Damrauer, Julie A Lynch, Danish Saleheen, Benjamin F Voight, Kyong-Mi Chang, VA Million Veteran Program
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237430