Chang, Young
Yoo, Jeong-Ju
Cho, Eun Ju
Han, Kyungdo
Kim, Dahye
Kim, Bo-Yeon
Chung, Goh Eun
Cho, Yuri
Shin, Dong Wook
Yu, Su Jong http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-7977
Article History
Received: 20 October 2020
Accepted: 20 January 2021
First Online: 17 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the authors have no conflict of interest.
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Seoul National University Hospital (E-1909-088-1065) and also conformed to the ethical guidelines of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. The requirement for informed consent from individual subjects was waived, because we used de-identified secondary data.
: This study demonstrated that weight fluctuation is an independent predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma in the nationwide population cohort. Therefore, maintaining steady weight is recommended to reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma.
: The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.