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- Title
Long‐term follow‐up of diabetic and non‐diabetic patients with chronic hepatitis C.
- Authors
Ciancio, Alessia; Ribaldone, Davide Giuseppe; Sacco, Marco; Saracco, Giorgio Maria; Aghemo, Alessio
- Abstract
Obesity is an established risk factor for HCC3 but measuring obesity using body mass index (BMI) may not be the best way to assess obesity-related HCC risk and - since longtime - waist circumference (WC) has been proposed as a better predictor of HCC than BMI.4 A recent study5 on 1154 patients with HCC showed that abnormal WC is associated with an increased risk of HCC, even among individuals considered to have a normal BMI. Our data confirm this observation showing that central obesity, indicated by abnormal levels of WC, is independently associated to the risk of HCC rather than general obesity among cirrhotic patients with SVR. We thank Zhu et al1 for the interest showed towards our recent paper2 on the long-term impact of the sustained virologic response (SVR) on diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs).
- Subjects
CHRONIC hepatitis C; PEOPLE with diabetes; HEPATOCELLULAR carcinoma
- Publication
Liver International, 2021, Vol 41, Issue 3, p640
- ISSN
1478-3223
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/liv.14738