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Impact of Steatosis on Fibrosis Progression in
Chronic Hepatitis B Patients: Results from 239
Paired Liver Biopsies before and after Anti-Viral
Therapy
Yameng Sun, Xiaoning Wu, Xinyan Zhao, Jialing Zhou,
Shanshan Wu, Yuanyuan Kong, Bingqiong Wang, Shuyan
Chen, Yiwen Shi, Xiaojuan Ou, Jidong Jia and Hong You,
Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital
Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational
Medicine in Liver Cirrhosis, National Clinical Research Center
of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China;
Background: HBV-related liver fibrosis can be reversed in
most of the patients after antiviral therapy. However, a subset
of about 10% progress even after effective suppressing
HBV-DNA. One of the hypothesis within this subset was
considered a possible contribution by steatosis. However,
here has been no large-scale histologically dynamic analysis
undertaken addressing this. Methods: Chronic hepatitis B
(CHB) patients with paired liver biopsies before and after
78 weeks of entacavir-based treatment were enrolled in this
study. Liver fibrosis and steatosis were assessed by Ishak
fibrosis score and NAFLD activity score (NAS), respectively.
Fibrosis or steatosis progression was defined as those
scores increasing ≥1 unit after treatment. Results: A total
of 239 CHB patients with paired liver biopsies were included
in the final analysis. Among them, 53 (22.2%) patients had
the concomitant steatosis, with a prevalence of 17.6%, 4.2%
and 0.4% in steatosis Grade 1, 2 and 3, respectively. After
anti-HBV therapy, 25 (10.5%) patients developed histological
fibrosis progression. However, in the patients with CHB
and steatosis before treatment, fibrosis progression only
occurred in 4 (7.5%) patients, which is comparable with that
in patients with CHB alone (11.3%, P=0.467). After adjusting
for BMI, gender and Ishak fibrosis stage, baseline steatosis
was not associated with fibrosis progression (HR=0.679;
95%CI: 0.218-2.118). Interestingly, in those 32 patients with
increasing steatosis, 6 (18.8%) had fibrosis progression.
In those 183 patients with stable steatosis, 18 (9.8%) had
fibrosis progression. In those 24 patients with decreasing
steatosis, only 1 patient (4.2%) had fibrosis progression.
Although P value was 0.094, it suggested an ordered trend
of association of steatosis changes and fibrosis progression.
Conclusion: Pre-treatment steatosis was not associated with
fibrosis progression in CHB patients after anti-viral therapy.
However, deteriorating steatosis may increase the risk of
fibrosis progression.
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