Title: Identifying inflammatory bowel disease patients at risk of metabolic dysfunction-
associated fatty liver disease: usefulness of non-invasive steatosis predictive scores.
Version: 3 Date: 04 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
The work is a good non-invasive approach to identify the group of IBD  patients suffering from
MAFLD as well; hence, preventive measures could be applied to avoid farther deterioration of
their health conditions.
Nevertheless, there are few typographical/factual errors which are quite prominent,
i) In the 'INTRODUCTION', in paragraph 6, there are repetition of sentences of same meaning.
"Unavailability of Ultrasound to the physicians" - this statement is quite a strong negative
statement, because portable ultrasound systems are quite cheap and easily available nowadays.
ii) In the 'METHODS' , under the 'Statistical analysis' paragraph, the sentence "calculated the
respectively Youden index" make no sense. Corrections will be appreciated.
iii) In the 'RESULTS', in the 6th and 7th paragraph, the use/arrangements of the first and third
brackets should be corrected.
iv) The figure 5 should be corrected - when the patients are "included/excluded", it should be
mentioned properly and diagrammatically represented.
Title: Identifying inflammatory bowel disease patients at risk of metabolic dysfunction-
associated fatty liver disease: usefulness of non-invasive steatosis predictive scores.
Version: 3 Date: 04 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
The work is a good non-invasive approach to identify the group of IBD  patients suffering from
MAFLD as well; hence, preventive measures could be applied to avoid farther deterioration of
their health conditions.
Nevertheless, there are few typographical/factual errors which are quite prominent,
i) In the 'INTRODUCTION', in paragraph 6, there are repetition of sentences of same meaning.
"Unavailability of Ultrasound to the physicians" - this statement is quite a strong negative
statement, because portable ultrasound systems are quite cheap and easily available nowadays.
ii) In the 'METHODS' , under the 'Statistical analysis' paragraph, the sentence "calculated the
respectively Youden index" make no sense. Corrections will be appreciated.
iii) In the 'RESULTS', in the 6th and 7th paragraph, the use/arrangements of the first and third
brackets should be corrected.
iv) The figure 5 should be corrected - when the patients are "included/excluded", it should be
mentioned properly and diagrammatically represented.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Identifying inflammatory bowel disease patients at risk of metabolic dysfunction-
associated fatty liver disease: usefulness of non-invasive steatosis predictive scores.
Version: 3 Date: 04 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
The work is a good non-invasive approach to identify the group of IBD  patients suffering from
MAFLD as well; hence, preventive measures could be applied to avoid farther deterioration of
their health conditions.
Nevertheless, there are few typographical/factual errors which are quite prominent,
i) In the 'INTRODUCTION', in paragraph 6, there are repetition of sentences of same meaning.
"Unavailability of Ultrasound to the physicians" - this statement is quite a strong negative
statement, because portable ultrasound systems are quite cheap and easily available nowadays.
ii) In the 'METHODS' , under the 'Statistical analysis' paragraph, the sentence "calculated the
respectively Youden index" make no sense. Corrections will be appreciated.
iii) In the 'RESULTS', in the 6th and 7th paragraph, the use/arrangements of the first and third
brackets should be corrected.
iv) The figure 5 should be corrected - when the patients are "included/excluded", it should be
mentioned properly and diagrammatically represented.
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