Occult hepatitis B virus infection predicts non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in severely obese individuals from Italy.
Giovanni RaimondoCarlo SaittaDaniele LombardoPablo José GiraudiNatalia RossoAntonio IeniSalvatore LazzaraSilvia PalmisanoDeborah BonazzaAngela AlibrandiGiuseppe NavarraClaudio TiribelliTeresa PollicinoPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2020)
NASH is highly prevalent in obese individuals undergoing bariatric surgery. OBI is one of the strongest risk factors of NASH in these patients.