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Significant Fibrosis is usually defined as F2

Posted by Poynard on 13 Dec 2011 at 10:43 GMT

, otherwise
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As the author used F3 for FibroTest a sensitivity analysis should be provided using 0.48 for FibroTest and not 0.58. This will probably not change the conclusion of the article but will be more appropriate as this is the way we treat patients with CHC.

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