“…The liver fibrosis staging scale used to quantify the degree of liver fibrosis varied among studies. The METAVIR scoring system was used in four studies [17,21,22,24], and the Ishak score was used in one study [23]. Hepatic fibrosis was evaluated by liver biopsy in four studies [17,[22][23][24], and by the FibroSURE (BioPredictive, Paris, France) test in one study [21].…”