Metabolic syndrome and severity of fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: An age‐dependent risk profiling study

Metabolic syndrome (MS) and its individual components are associated with the severity and progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We sought to evaluate the relationship between MS components and the risk of severe hepatic fibrosis in NAFLD patients discriminated by age.We considered 863 consecutive patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD, who had been fully evaluated for components of MS.Multivariate logistic regression analysis...