{"id":2515,"date":"2025-11-28T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabriel.rigodolo.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:44:57","slug":"use-of-hepatoscope-2dte-for-non-invasive-assessment-of-liver-stiffness-among-mexican-immigrant-adults-in-a-community-based-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/use-of-hepatoscope-2dte-for-non-invasive-assessment-of-liver-stiffness-among-mexican-immigrant-adults-in-a-community-based-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Hepatoscope 2DTE for non-invasive assessment of liver stiffness among Mexican immigrant adults in a community-based setting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Edgar A. Villavicencio, Cindy Serdjebi, Adriana Maldonado, Estefania Ochoa Mora, Adrien Besson, Naim Alkhouri, David O. Garcia<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clinics and Research in Hepatology and GastroEnterology, January 2025<\/span><\/p>\n

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Purpose<\/h3>\n
Mexican-origin adults have one of the highest rates of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and its severe form metabolic dysfunction steatohepatitis (MASH) in the US. Given the costs and invasiveness of liver biopsy, this study assessed the application of Hepatoscope\u00ae 2DTE, the latest-generation transient elastography for liver stiffness in Mexican adult immigrants from Southern Arizona and compared it with FibroScan\u00ae VCTE\u2122.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Methods<\/h3>\n
Participants (n<\/em>\u00a0= 199) from a cross-sectional community-based study completed anthropometric measures, demographic information, a blood draw, and liver stiffness measurements (LSM) with\u00a0FibroScan<\/a>\u00a0VCTE and the ultraportable Hepatoscope 2DTE. LSM2DTE<\/sub>\u00a0and LSMVCTE<\/sub>\u00a0were compared using Spearman’s correlation and Bland-Altman analysis. The number of at-risk for fibrosis participants as assessed using each system was compared according to FIB-4.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Results<\/h3>\n
A total of 122 participants were considered for this sub-analysis which consisted of 71.3 % women. Mean age was 51.9 \u00b1 12.1 years, BMI was 30.7 \u00b1 5.7 kg\/m\u00b2, 43.4 % of participants had obesity, and 19.7 % were diabetic. Mean FIB-4 was 1.00 \u00b1 0.53, and median LSM were 5.6 [4.7 – 6.7] and 5.3 [4.1 – 5.8] kPa for 2DTE and VCTE, respectively. 2DTE significantly correlated with VCTE (r<\/em>\u00a0= 0.53,\u00a0p<\/em>\u00a0< 0.0001) and there was no systematic bias between the two LSM. There was no difference in the number of at-risk for fibrosis participants between the two LSM per FIB-4 categories.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hepatoscope can be used for point-of-care liver stiffness assessment and\u00a0risk stratification<\/a>\u00a0of adults at risk of liver fibrosis in community-based settings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Edgar A. Villavicencio, Cindy Serdjebi, Adriana Maldonado, Estefania Ochoa Mora, Adrien Besson, Naim Alkhouri, David O. Garcia \u00a0 Clinics and Research in Hepatology and GastroEnterology, January 2025 Abstract Purpose Mexican-origin adults have one of the highest rates of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and its severe form metabolic dysfunction steatohepatitis (MASH) in the US. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peer-reviewed-publications","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepatoscope.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}