TY - JOUR T1 - Real-world risk score for hepatocellular carcinoma risk prediction in CHBV: a validation outside of Asia JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 1346 LP - 1347 DO - 10.1136/gutjnl-2016-312993 VL - 66 IS - 7 AU - Mathias Daheim AU - Sonja Lang AU - Tobias Goeser AU - Hans-Michael Steffen AU - Münevver Demir Y1 - 2017/07/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/66/7/1346.abstract N2 - With great interest we have read the recent paper by Poh et al 1 suggesting the use of a routine parameter-based risk score for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Asian patients with chronic HBV infection (CHBV).With an estimated 240 million people being chronically infected by HBV worldwide, CHBV is a major global health burden, putting these people at risk for the development of liver cirrhosis and HCC.2–4 It remains challenging to identify those patients with CHBV carrying a high risk for HCC development applying an easy to use, readily available and cost effective test system. Therefore risk predicting … ER -