Table 1.

Comparison of pathological scoring and staging of NAFLD between local and central pathologists

	Local (n = 150)	Central (n = 150)	P value
NAS (0–4/5–8)	105/45	132/18	<0.001
Steatosis (0/1/2/3)	0/67/59/24	8/80/36/26	<0.001
Lobular inflammation (0/1/2/3)	3/100/40/7	31/105/13/1	<0.001
Ballooning (0/1/2)	69/54/27	94/48/8	<0.001
Fibrosis stage (F0/1/2/3/4)	13/66/33/32/6	45/55/30/16/4	<0.001
Matteoni's classification (non‐NAFLD/Type1‐2/Type3‐4)	0/69/81	8/91/51	<0.001†

^†Comparison in distribution of NASH or non‐NASH by McNemar's test.