RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Performance of the SteatoTest, ActiTest, NashTest and FibroTest in a multiethnic cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
JF Journal of Investigative Medicine
JO J Investig Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP jim-2018-000864
DO 10.1136/jim-2018-000864
A1 Fernando Bril
A1 Michael J McPhaul
A1 Michael P Caulfield
A1 Jean-Marie Castille
A1 Thierry Poynard
A1 Consuelo Soldevila-Pico
A1 Virginia C Clark
A1 Roberto J Firpi-Morell
A1 Jinping Lai
A1 Kenneth Cusi
YR 2018
UL http://hw-f5-jim.highwire.org/content/early/2018/10/10/jim-2018-000864.abstract
AB Fibromax is a diagnostic tool composed of the combination of 4 non-invasive biomarker panels for the diagnosis of steatosis (SteatoTest), necrosis and inflammation (ActiTest and NashTest-2) and fibrosis (FibroTest). The purpose of this study was to assess the performance of these biomarker panels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). All patients underwent routine labs, a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test, a liver proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) to measure intrahepatic triglyceride content, and a percutaneous liver biopsy to establish the diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and to grade and stage the disease in those patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by 1H-MRS. For determination of the scores, plasma samples were blindly provided to establish the SteatoTest, ActiTest, NashTest-2 and FibroTest scores. A total of 220 patients with T2DM were included in this study. When the ability of the SteatoTest to identify patients with T2DM with NAFLD by 1H-MRS was assessed, the overall performance expressed as the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.73 (95% CI 0.65 to 0.81). The performance of the ActiTest and NashTest-2 to diagnose definite NASH among patients with T2DM was 0.70 (95% CI 0.63 to 0.77) and 0.69 (95% CI 0.62 to 0.76), respectively. Regarding the FibroTest score, its performance to identify patients with moderate or advanced fibrosis was 0.67 (95% CI 0.58 to 0.76) and 0.72 (95% CI 0.61 to 0.83), respectively. Non-invasive panels for the diagnosis of steatosis, NASH and/or fibrosis, which were developed and validated in non-diabetic cohorts, underperformed when applied to a large cohort of patients with T2DM. Results from non-diabetic populations should not be extrapolated to patients with T2DM.