%0 Journal Article
%A Fernandez-Fuertes, M
%A Macías, J
%A Corma-Gómez, A
%A Rincón, P
%A Merchante, N
%A Gómez-Mateos, J
%A Pineda, J A
%A Real, L M
%T Similar prevalence of hepatic steatosis among patients with chronic hepatitis C with and without HIV coinfection.
%D 2020
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/15407
%X Hepatic steatosis (HS) is frequently observed in HIV-infected patients. It is not known whether HIV infection is an independent risk factor for HS development. We aimed to analyze whether HIV coinfection was associated with a higher frequency of HS in patients with chronic hepatitis C. This was a retrospective cross-sectional study. 574 subjects with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were included, 246 (43%) of them coinfected with HIV. All of them underwent transient elastography with controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) measurement. HS was defined as CAP ≥ 248 dB/m. 147 individuals (45%) showed HS in the HCV-monoinfected group and 100 (40.7%) in the HIV/HCV-coinfected group (p = 0.318). HS was associated with body mass index (BMI) [
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