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Hepatic steatosis in chronic hepatitis B develops due to host metabolic factors: a comparative approach with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Oct 2007
Tsochatzis E, Papatheodoridis G V, Manesis E K, Chrysanthos N, Kafiri G, Archimandritis A J
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Hepatic steatosis has not been adequately studied in chronic hepatitis B, while it is considered to be a cardinal feature in chronic hepatitis C and to be mainly metabolically induced in patients infected with genotype 1. We investigated the prevalence of and the parameters associated with steatosis in HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B. METHODS: We studied 213 patients with HBeAg-negative...
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