The Framingham Steatosis Index has been created to accurately identify patients with hepatic steatosis.

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fibrosis is only scar tissue and scars should not be so scary, many patients with hep b or c over decades have some fibrosis stage 1 or 2 and they need to realise they have a normal 70 years plus life expectancy first. similiarly many have stage 4 and initially feel its very bad, but the key is to understand we can all live to old age and have normal liver function with stage 4 levels also. Fibrosis also needs to be seen in the light of its cause, fatty liver is directly linked mainly to obesity and weight reduction will greatly affect it. alcoholic damage is again very affected by teetotalism. With hepatitis fibrosis is linked to permanently raised ALT scores and again reducing these will let the liver continue to live and function fine for decades. I like many UK helpline callers had fib level 4 with cirrhosis and necrosis and dysphasia yet 14 years later no necrosis and only fib 2. Down to mainly a liver friendly lifestyle zero alcohol, fried foods and liver wearing prescriptions and then in 2008 clearing the HCV. most of all we find on the helpline people are depressed by the double whammy of hep diagnosis and then a scan saying serious fibrosis//cirrhosis when in fact both are very manageable and given the management advice and healthy examples the shock and depression is gotten over far quicker