Serum leptin and homeostasis model assessment-IR as novel predictors of early liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
N MousaA Abdel-RazikT ShetaWalaa ShabanaS ZakariaM AwadMostafa AbdelsalamN El-WakeelW ElkashefN EffatA ElgamalA G DeiabPublished in: British journal of biomedical science (2018)
Serum leptin may be related to the rate of fibrosis progression in nondiabetic patients with chronic HBV infection. Follow-up by serial measurement of serum leptin and HOMA-IR in non diabetic HBV-infected patients may be used as a non-invasive marker of early liver fibrosis.