Obesity and recurrence-free survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after achieving sustained virological response to interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C.
Hiroji ShinkawaShogo TanakaShigekazu TakemuraTokuji ItoTakanori AotaMasaki KodaToru MiyazakiTakatsugu YamamotoShoji KuboPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2018)
Obesity and non-anatomical resection were independent risk factors for HCC recurrence after hepatic resection and successful IFN therapy. Obesity is an important clinical problem to consider to improve postoperative outcomes in such patients.
Keyphrases
- free survival
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- dendritic cells
- patients undergoing
- adipose tissue
- prognostic factors
- immune response
- body mass index
- bone marrow
- liver fibrosis
- replacement therapy
- smoking cessation