Difference in incidence of developing hepatocellular carcinoma between hepatitis B virus-and hepatitis C virus-infected patients

Table 4 Hazard ratio for developing hepatocellular carcinoma in each item in various reports of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Ref.	Sex	Age	ALT	AFP	Presence of cirrhosis	DM	HCV-genotype
Ishiguro et al[15]		11.4	10.5
Chen et al[18]	1.65	5.83	4.43			3.46
Sun et al[19]		6.5	7.7
Tanaka et al[20]	2.63	4.47	6.23
Kumada et al[21]		2.42	6.263		10.003
Ito et al[22]	1.448	2.187	1.916	6.5
Suruki et al[23]
Lee et al[24]							2.8 (HCV-1)
Average		5.486	5.877

ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; AFP: α-fetoprotein; DM: Diabetes mellitus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus.