Kromrey ML, et al. - In this study involving 2,783 volunteers, researchers examined the accuracy of ultrasonography in the assessment of hepatic steatosis using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as standard of reference and investigated the influence of additional hepatic iron overload. For this analysis, study participants underwent confounder-corrected chemical-shift-encoded MRI of the liver at 1.5 T. According to findings, MRI showed hepatic steatosis in 40% of participants (n=1,112), which was mild in 68.9% (n=766), moderate in 26.7% (n=297), and severe in 4.4% (n=49) of subjects. According to findings, ultrasonography is an excellent tool for clinically assessing hepatic steatosis in patients with low liver fat content with certain limitations. Ultrasonographic detection of hepatic steatosis is not influenced by liver iron.