NLRP3 and Cirrhosis: The comparison between the AUC of the ROC curves showed that serum NLRP3 (AUC = 0.971) was superior to APRI (AUC = 0.754, z = 2.1004, P = 0.036) but was comparable to FIB-4 (AUC = 0.806, z = 1.7829, P = 0.075) in the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis/cirrhosis.