AIC	Akaike Information Criterion
ALD	Alcoholic Liver Disease
ASC	Apoptosis-associated Speck-like protein containing a Caspase recruiting domain
AUC	Area Under the Curve
BIC	Bayesian Information Criterion
CDAA	Choline Deficient Amino Acid-defined
C.I.	Confidence Interval
CKD	Chronic Kidney Disease
CRP	C-Reactive Protein
Gal-3	Galectin-3
HLD	Hyperlipidemia
HTN	Hypertension
IL	Interleukin
NAFLD	Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
NASH	Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
NPV	Negative Predictive Value
PPV	Positive Predictive Value
RA	Rheumatoid Arthritis
ROC	Receiver Operating Characteristic
VIF	Variance Inflection Factor