Letter to the Editor: Use of New Defined Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B – The Authors’ reply

Hepatology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Bin Lee ◽  
Juneyoung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis B ◽  
Metabolic Risk Factors ◽  
Metabolic Risk ◽  
Letter To The Editor

scholarly journals Metabolic risk factors are associated with non‐hepatitis B non‐hepatitis C hepatocellular carcinoma in Taiwan, an endemic area of chronic hepatitis B

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiu‐Feng Huang ◽  
Il‐Chi Chang ◽  
Chih‐Chen Hong ◽  
Tseng‐Chang Yen ◽  
Chao‐Long Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis B ◽  
Endemic Area ◽  
Metabolic Risk Factors ◽  
Metabolic Risk

scholarly journals HEPATITIS B AND C: FREQUENCY, MODES OF TRANSMISSION AND RISK FACTORS ALONG WITH SOME UNORTHODOX ROUTES OF SPREAD

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
Iftikhar Haider Naqvi ◽  
Abu Talib ◽  
Gohar Baloch ◽  
Khalid Mahmood ◽  
Zahid Qadari
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis B ◽  
Dental Treatment ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Transmission Risk ◽  
Retrospective Case ◽  
Leech Therapy ◽  
Ear Piercing

Background: Pakistan's being a country placed in intermediate endemicity zone of HBV and HCV, with rising population, there is lack scarcity of knowledge about transmission of risk factors specially unorthodox and frequency of this health challenge. Methods: A retrospective case control study where case records of all patients aged from 18 - 70 years from 2012 to 2017 with either gender diagnosed as chronic hepatitis B and C were included. Information about shave from barber-shop, sharing of toothbrush at home, tattooing, cautery, and ear piercing were collected. Information about unorthodox risks for transmission of HBV and HCV, like skin branding, cupping of blood, circumcision by the barber, sharing of tooth brushes and leech therapy was collected. Results: Among 1134 patients of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) and chronic hepatitis C (HCV), Age > 35 years, shave from barber and dental treatment were found to be risk factor for both HCV and HBV transmission. Amongst unorthodox risk factors like skin branding, cupping of blood, circumcision by the barber, sharing of tooth brushes and leech therapy, only cupping of blood (Hijama) was a significant risk for transmission of both HBV and HCV. Conclusion: Viral related chronic hepatitis is frequently reported problem in this part of the world where HCV supersedes HBV. Socieodemographic factor like age > 35 year, shave from barbers and dental treatment were risk factors for transmission of both HCV and HBV. Among orthodox routes of transmission blood cupping (hijama) has shown as a significant transmission risk for both HCV and HBV.

scholarly journals Sustained virological response and metabolic risk factors are associated with mortality in patients with chronic hepatitis C

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. e0208858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Hao Yen ◽  
Kwong-Ming Kee ◽  
Chien-Hung Chen ◽  
Tsung-Hui Hu ◽  
Sheng-Nan Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Sustained Virological Response ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis C ◽  
Virological Response ◽  
Metabolic Risk Factors ◽  
Metabolic Risk
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