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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-related liver cirrhosis is increasing in China: A ten-year retrospective study

Overview of attention for article published in Clinics, August 2015
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Title
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-related liver cirrhosis is increasing in China: A ten-year retrospective study
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Clinics, August 2015
DOI 10.6061/clinics/2015(08)06
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Authors

Ji Xiong, Jun Wang, Juan Huang, Wenjing Sun, Jun Wang, Dongfeng Chen

Abstract

Little is known about metabolic factors in cirrhotic patients in China. Therefore, we aimed to quantify the prevalence of both metabolic factors and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-related liver cirrhosis in China. The medical records of 1,582 patients diagnosed with liver cirrhosis from June 2003 to July 2013 at Daping Hospital (Chongqing, China) were retrospectively reviewed through a computer-generated search. Serum hepatitis B virus surface antigen was present in 1,083 (68.5%) patients, and hepatitis B was found to be the only etiological factor in 938 (59.3%) of all patients. Obesity, diabetes mellitus, and arterial hypertension were observed in 229 (14.5%), 159 (10.1%), and 129 (8.2%) patients, respectively. From 2012-2013, the proportion of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-related liver cirrhosis increased to 3.2%, whereas the average proportion of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-related liver cirrhosis in the previous ten years was 1.9%. The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma was much higher in males than in females (6.3% vs. 3.7%, respectively, p=0.036). Obesity and diabetes mellitus did not significantly increase the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in the whole cirrhotic group. The presence of hepatitis B virus was the only risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients (p<0.001). Although hepatitis B virus remains the main etiology of liver cirrhosis in China, steatohepatitis-related liver cirrhosis is increasing in frequency. Hepatitis B virus was the sole significant risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in the whole cirrhotic group in the present study, in contrast to obesity and diabetes mellitus, for which only a trend of increased hepatocellular carcinoma was found.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 34 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 20%
Student > Master 5 14%
Other 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Researcher 3 9%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 9 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 13 37%
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#8,534,528
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Outputs from Clinics
#327
of 1,215 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#94,634
of 276,419 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinics
#5
of 13 outputs
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