Fig. 1.

(A) Correlation between the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score and growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15); (B) Correlation between the Child-Pugh score and GDF-15; (C) Correlation between the cirrhosis discriminant score (CDS) and GDF-15. When the significant serum markers from the analysis of the correlations between the factors that predicted fibrosis and liver disease severity and GDF-15 were ranked from the highest bivariate Spearman rank correlation coefficient to the lowest, the results were as follows: Child-Pugh score (r=0.474), CDS (r=0.447), and MELD score (r=0.415) (p<0.01).