Liver Risk Factor Count
Liver health can only be checked with blood tests and sometimes scans, and liver disease often has no symptoms early on. This page does not estimate a "liver age". It counts risk factors the NHS links with fatty liver disease and alcohol-related liver disease.
Before you start
Method : Liver Risk Factor Count — a custom points score written by this site. Each answer adds or subtracts the points shown in the Methodology table below.
Validation : Unvalidated. The points have never been tested against any laboratory measurement or health outcome, and the result is not an age.
Review : not reviewed by a qualified clinician. Educational only — not a diagnosis or a medical test.
Yellowing of the skin or eyes (jaundice), vomiting blood, or black, tarry poo needs urgent medical help.
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NHS advice: no more than 14 units a week.
Answer the questions, then press Calculate score.
How to Use This Calculator
- Answer each question.
- Press Calculate score.
- Read the breakdown and suggestions.
Methodology & assumptions
Your score is the sum of the points below. The weights are our own judgement. The old version added made-up years for fatigue, digestion, skin signs, liver enzyme results and hepatitis history and gave a "liver age". Symptoms and test results need a doctor, so they were removed with the age output.
| Factor | Answer | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Alcohol (UK units a week) | None | 0 |
| 14 or fewer | 0 | |
| 15–35 | +2 | |
| More than 35 | +3 | |
| Body mass index (BMI, kg/m²) | Under 25 | 0 |
| 25–29.9 | +1 | |
| 30 or more | +2 | |
| Type 2 diabetes | No | 0 |
| Yes | +2 | |
| High blood pressure | No / controlled | 0 |
| Yes | +1 | |
| Moderate activity per week | 150+ minutes | 0 |
| Under 150 minutes | +1 | |
| Little or none | +1 |
Worked examples
More than 35 units a week, BMI 31, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, little activity: 3 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 = +9 points.
14 units or fewer, BMI 23, no diabetes, normal blood pressure, 150+ minutes: 0 points.
Understanding your result
This counts risk factors you reported. It is not a liver test and not an age. Normal results here don't rule out liver disease. Health-agency guidance linked below is general and based on populations, not on this score.
Sources & further reading
The points table is our own convention and is not taken from these sources.
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