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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Development and Internal Validation of Fatty Liver Prediction Models in Obese Children and Adolescents.

Giorgio Bedogni, Sofia Tamini, Diana Caroli, Sabrina Cicolini, Marco Domenicali, Alessandro Sartorio

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Giorgio BedogniClinical Epidemiology Unit, Liver Research Center, 34012 Basovizza, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1495-9306
Sofia TaminiIstituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Experimental Laboratory for Auxo-Endocrinological Research, 28824 Verbania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2503-5117
Diana CaroliIstituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Experimental Laboratory for Auxo-Endocrinological Research, 28824 Verbania, Italy.
Sabrina CicoliniIstituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Experimental Laboratory for Auxo-Endocrinological Research, 28824 Verbania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1795-7848
Marco DomenicaliDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Alessandro SartorioIstituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Experimental Laboratory for Auxo-Endocrinological Research, 28824 Verbania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9620-4133

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Istituto Auxologico Italiano Progetti di ricerca corrente 1C021_2020 "BILOB"
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Abstract

To develop predictive models of fatty liver (FL), we performed a cross-sectional retrospective study of 1672 obese children with a median (interquartile range) age of 15 (13-16) years. The outcome variable was FL diagnosed by ultrasonography. The potential predictors were: (1) binary: sex; (2) continuous: age, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate transaminase, gamma-glutamyltransferase, glucose, insulin, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, mean arterial pressure, uric acid, and c-reactive protein; (3) ordinal: Pubertal status. Bootstrapped multivariable logistic regression with fractional polynomials was used to develop the models. Two models were developed and internally validated, one using BMI and the other using WC as the anthropometric predictor. Both models included ALT, HOMA-IR, triglycerides, and uric acid as predictors, had similar discrimination (c-statistic = 0.81), and were similarly well calibrated as determined by calibration plots. These models should undergo external validation before being employed in clinical or research practice.

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adolescentschildrencross-sectional studydiagnostic techniques and proceduresfatty liverobesity

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