LiverDecoded Guide: Friendly, Evidence-Based Liver Health Resources

LiverDecoded Guide

Easy-to-understand guides for anyone newly diagnosed with liver diseases. Learn what your tests mean, what to do next, and how to improve your liver health with evidence-based steps.

1. Liver Health Calculators

• Comprehensive Liver Risk Assessment: Calculate 9 liver fibrosis and steatosis scores in one place: FLI, FIB-4, NFS, APRI, SAFE, FNI, LSM, AGILE 3+, and AGILE 4. Get instant MASLD/NAFLD risk assessment with detailed clinical interpretations.

• Fib-4 calculator: Use our interactive calculator below to estimate your FIB-4 score. You’ll need your age and three values from a recent blood test: AST (SGOT), ALT (SGPT), and platelet count.

  It’s one of the most widely used tools for estimating whether your liver has developed significant scarring (fibrosis) and the best part is that it only requires information from a routine blood test.

• Combined Agile 3+ and Agile 4 Calculators: If Fib-4 shows indeterminate or high risk for significant liver scarring, doctors will refer patients for specialized test known as Fibroscan or liver stiffness measurement (LSM) via vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE).

  While results from fibroscan alone can diagnose someone as having advanced fibrosis or even cirrhosis, researchers have found that you get a much more accurate diagnosis when you combine the LSM value from this test with other parameters like age, diabetes status etc.

• Combined MELD Score Calculator: Once you have done Fib-4 a fibroscan and calculated Agile 3+ and Agile 4 value, you will know if you have advanced liver disease or not. If you do, than the MELD score comes into play.

  MELD score is like a “severity meter” for liver disease. It uses blood tests to calculate a single number that indicates how well liver is functioning among patients already diagnosed with advanced chronic liver diseases and it also determines how soon a person might need a liver transplant. A higher score means more severe disease and a more urgent need for transplantation. Our combined calculator provides with all three MELD scores.

2. Liver Function Tests (LFTs)

• Liver Enzymes Explained: Understanding AST, ALT, ALP & GGT

• Liver Function Tests Explained: Bilirubin, Albumin, PT/INR

• Can FibroSure Test Replace FibroScan?

• What Is the MELD Score? Understanding MELD, MELD-Na, and MELD 3.0

• What Is the FIB-4 Score? Calculator, Interpretation & Clinical Use

3. Imaging Tests

• Abdominal Ultrasound for Fatty Liver

4. Liver Elastography

• Fundamentals of Liver Elastography

• FibroScan® (VCTE): Principles, Performance, Probes, CAP, and Clinical Use in MASLD

• Alternatives to FibroScan®: Ultrasound-Based Elastography (pSWE & 2D-SWE)

• Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) & PDFF: Principles, Performance, and Clinical Use in MASLD

5. Dietary Guidelines

• Dietary Fructose and Liver Health: What the Research Shows

• Coffee and Liver Health: Evidence-Based Benefits for MASLD, Cirrhosis, and Liver Cancer

• Dietary Fats and Fatty Liver Disease

• Ultra-Processed Foods and Fatty Liver Disease: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Solutions

• Herbs & Spice for Fatty Liver Disease Diet: Evidence, Safety, and Culinary Use

• Salt and Your Liver: Why It Matters in Fatty Liver and Cirrhosis

6. Exercise

• Exercise as a Therapeutic Intervention for Fatty Liver Disease

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