Author(s)

Arezoo Estakhri, Ali Akbari Sari, Sahar Naz Nedjat, Marym Rohban, Naser Rakhshani, Seyed Mohammad Tavangar, Reza Malekzadeh, Ghodrat Montazeri

Digestive Disease Research Center (DDRC), Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
School of Public Health, Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Background: The influence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease on the outcome of chronic hepatitis B disease, including viral, biochemical and histologic characteristics, in Iranian patients is not yet fully un- derstood. Aim: To evaluate the effect of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) on long-term histology- cal, biochemical and viral outcome of chronic he- pa-tictis B in Iranian patients. Methods: We retro- spec-tively evaluated 94 “e Ag” negative chronic hepatitis B patients (with NAFLD: 44, without NAFLD: 50). Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease was diagnosed based on liver biopsy according to Kleiner classifica-tion. Liver biopsy was done for all patients. Serologi-cal and biochemical variables were evaluated with repeated measure analysis. Results: Non-Alcoholic Fat- ty Liver Disease (NAFLD) was present in 47% of the patients (44 out of 94 patients). In the NAFLD group, increase in AST, ALT, stage (P = 0.002), grade, and total score of liver biopsy were independently related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, while HBV-DNA viral load did not correlate with the presence of a fatty liver. Conclusion: Abnormalities of liver enzymes and liver histopathology are more prevalent in concurrent chronic hepatitis B and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; Chronic Hepatitis B; IMPACT; Long-Term Prognosis; Iranian

Estakhri, A. , Sari, A. , Nedjat, S. , Rohban, M. , Rakhshani, N. , Tavangar, S. , Malekzadeh, R. and Montazeri, G. (2012) The effect of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) on long-term outcome of chronic hepatitis B in Iranian patients. Open Journal of Gastroenterology, 2, 18-21. doi: 10.4236/ojgas.2012.21004.