Table 1.

Characteristics of the test set.

Characteristic	Fibrosis (N = 59)	Non-fibrosis (N = 115)	p value
Age (y)a	50.3 ± 13.2	43.0 ± 12.9	<0.001
Gender  Male  Female	46 (78.0%) 13 (22.0%)	60 (52.2%) 55 (47.8%)	<0.05
Laboratory tests
Alanine aminotransferase (U/L)a	44.7 ± 49.2	31.8 ± 29.4	<0.05
Aspartate aminotransferase	45.2 ± 45.4	29.9 ± 16.9	<0.05
(U/L)a
Platelet count ( × 109/L)a	165.7 ± 72.3	227.0 ± 55.8	<0.001

^aData are means ± standard deviations.