Abstract:Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with low disease activity are at risk of liver fibrosis. The age-adjusted fibrosis-4 index (FIB4-AA), developed in our previous publication, and was implemented to evaluate the tendency of liver fibrosis in these patients. We aimed to investigate the rate of liver fibrosis in CHB patients with low disease activity. Resuming our previous study, the FIB-4 changes of 244 antiviral treatment-naïve CHB patients, with a total of 1243.48 person-years, were reviewed. Among the cohort… Show more
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