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Trial profile
*Threshold for liver biopsy according to transient elastography was increased during the study period due to increasing knowledge of cutoffs for ruling out clinically significant liver fibrosis. We excluded liver fibrosis in 398 patients using transient elastography cutoff of 6 kPa.17, 30 We excluded clinically significant liver fibrosis in 1075 patients using transient elastography cutoff of 8 kPa.
