350 Clinical Factors Predicting Advanced Liver Fibrosis in Hepatitis B E Antigen Positive Chronic Hepatitis B

Systematic review with meta‐analysis: the proportion of chronic hepatitis B patients with normal alanine transaminase ≤40 IU/L and significant hepatic fibrosis

“…[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Another eight studies did not report detailed histological findings of study patients and were also excluded, [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] and another three studies were eliminated due to small study sizes (N < 30 patients). [35][36][37] One other study was excluded because it also included patients infected with hepatitis C virus, 38 and another study was excluded as it involved patients with significant alcohol use.…”