Fig. 1From: Performance of liver stiffness measurements obtained with FibroScan is affected by glucose metabolism in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver diseasea The liver stiffness measurement (LSM) values were grouped by the liver fibrosis stage. The abscissa represents the stage of fibrosis, and the ordinate represents the LSM value. It reveals significant stepwise increases in the LSM with increasing histologic severity of hepatic fibrosis. Boxplots are shown as the median, interquartile range, and 5 and 95% percentiles. ▲ represents the value of greater variability. The Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple correction was used for univariate comparisons between groups. * represents P < 0.05, ** represents P < 0.01, *** represents P < 0.001. b The diagnostic performance of the LSM values for liver fibrosis stage. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves were shown regarding the performance of LSM in distinguishing liver fibrosis stage 0 from 1 to 4, 0–1 from 2 to 4, 0–2 from 3 to 4, and 0–3 from 4Back to article page