{"id":6228,"date":"2021-09-26T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2021-09-26T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T02:20:18","slug":"fib-4-liver-fibrosis-score-would-be-a-good-independent-predictor-of-covid-19-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/en\/fib-4-liver-fibrosis-score-would-be-a-good-independent-predictor-of-covid-19-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"FIB-4 (Liver Fibrosis score) would be a good independent predictor of COVID-19 mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group from Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, etc. has reported that FIB-4 would be a good independent predictor of COVID-19 mortality.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/hep4.1650\">https:\/\/aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/hep4.1650<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total of 202 participants were selected from the two cohorts (n = 87 from the MassCPR cohort and n = 115 from the BWH cohort).<br \/>\nFIB-4 is defined by the following formula:<br \/>\nFIB-4=(Age(year)xAST(U\/L)\/(PLT(100\/uL)x\u221aALT(U\/L))<\/p>\n<p>In logistic regression analysis, higher FIB-4 was associated with mortality and an unadjusted OR = 1.75 (95% CI, 1.37, 2.23; P < 0.001), and after adjusting for sex, BMI, ethnicity, hypertension, diabetes, remdesivir use, and liver diseases, FIB-4 remained to be associated with mortality (adjusted OR = 1.79; 95% CI, 1.36, 2.35; P < 0.001)\n\nIn conclusion, it was shown that FIB-4 at admission would be a good independent index in predicting COVID-19 death, with an AUC of 0.79. \n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FIB-4_mortality_SARS-CoV-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FIB-4_mortality_SARS-CoV-2-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FIB-4_mortality_SARS-CoV-2-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FIB-4_mortality_SARS-CoV-2-600x443.png 600w, https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FIB-4_mortality_SARS-CoV-2.png 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group from Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, etc. has reported that FIB<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-btn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/en\/fib-4-liver-fibrosis-score-would-be-a-good-independent-predictor-of-covid-19-mortality\/\" class=\"home-blog-btn\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-en","category-technology-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}