Table 1.

Patient profile and the number of bile acids observed by NMR

Disease type	Number of patients	Number of patients in which all six conjugated bile acids were detecteda	Number of patients in which only four conjugated bile acids were detectedb
Hepatocellular carcinoma	6	2	4
Cholangio-carcinoma	3	1	2
Hepatitis C	2	0	2
Alcoholic cirrhosis	1	0	1
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis	1	0	1
Non-liver disease	11	7	4

^aSix bile acids detected were GCA, GCDCA, GDCA, TCA, TCDCA, and TDCA

^bSecondary bile acids, GDCA, and TDCA, were not detected in these patients