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Vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE)–based Agile scores, developed for diagnosis of advanced fibrosis (Agile 3+ score) and cirrhosis (Agile 4 score) in patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), are highly accurate in predicting liver-related events (LREs) and may be suitable alternatives to liver biopsy in routine clinical practice and phase IIb/III clinical trials for steatohepatitis, researchers from the VCTE-Prognosis Study Group have reported.

Statin therapy appears to result in a modest elevation in blood sugar levels, increasing the likelihood of diabetes development especially among people whose blood sugar levels are already near the diagnostic threshold, according to a meta-analysis.