Guo, Huanyi
Liao, Mei
Jin, Jieyang
Zeng, Jie
Li, Shuoyang
Schroeder, Darrell R.
Zheng, Jian
Zheng, Rongqin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7129-8436
Chen, Shigao
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81601503)
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0112000)
Article History
Received: 2 July 2019
Revised: 11 August 2019
Accepted: 12 September 2019
First Online: 30 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Rong-Qin Zheng.
: All authors disclosed no relevant relationships of conflict of interest.
: Darrell R. Schroeder (Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN) and Caixia Zhang (School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University) kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects have been previously reported in two articles entitled “Diagnostic accuracy of two-dimensional shear wave elastography for the non-invasive staging of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: a cohort study with internal validation” and “Shear wave elastography for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: Adapting the cut-offs to alanine aminotransferase levels improves accuracy.”
: • Prospective• Diagnostic or prognostic study• Performed at one institution