BMC Medicine
Associations of CLivD score with dementia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality in the general population from the UK biobank
Abstract Background The Chronic Liver Disease (CLivD) score is a non-invasive marker of advanced liver disease risk. We evaluated its associations with dementia, cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and all-cause mortality. Methods This prospective cohort study included UK Biobank participants with calculable CLivD scores at baseline (2006–2010). Two previously validated versions of the score were calculated: a laboratory-based CLivD (CLivD lab ), incorporating age, sex, waist-hip ratio, alcohol consumption, diabe …