Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -- a condition that can lead to liver cirrhosis and cancer -- isn ' t typically detected until well advanced. Even then, diagnosis requires a biopsy. To more easily detect NAFLD, researchers report that the microbial makeup of a patient ' s stool -- gut microbiome -- can be used to predict advanced NAFLD with 88 to 94 percent accuracy.
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