Baseline hepatocyte ballooning is a risk factor for adverse events in patients with chronic hepatitis B complicated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
You-Wen Tan, Jia-Min Wang, Xing-Bei Zhou, Department of Hepatology, The Third Hospital of Zhenjiang Affiliated Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu Province, China
Author contributions: YW Tan and JM Wang contribute equally to research; YW Tan and XB Zhou designed the research; YW Tan and JM Wang collected and analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript; YW Tan performed the liver pathological evaluations; YW Tan and XB Zhou wrote and revised the manuscript; All authors have read and approved the final version to be published.
Supported by the Social Development Project of Jiangsu Province, China, No. BE2020775; Chinese Federation of Public Health foundation, No. GWLM202002.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the ethics committee of The Third People’s Hospital Affiliated to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu University.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there is no relevant conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: The datasets used or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: You-Wen Tan, MD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Hepatology, The Third Hospital of Zhenjiang Affiliated Jiangsu University, No. 300 Daijiamen, Runzhou Distinct, Zhenjiang 212003, Jiangsu Province, China. tyw915@sina.com
Received: November 22, 2022
Peer-review started: November 22, 2022
First decision: December 10, 2022
Revised: December 14, 2022
Accepted: January 17, 2023
Article in press: January 17, 2023
Published online: February 27, 2023
