Title: Mortality rates and risk factors in 1,412 Japanese patients with decompensated hepatitis
C virus-related cirrhosis: A retrospective long-term cohort study
Version: 1 Date: 13 Dec 2020
Reviewer's report:
This an interesting and well written paper, but some issues should be addressed by the authors
1) Did the authors evaluate MELD score?
2) In Table 1 proportions % would be useful as well as to present the comparison between died
and alive pts
3) How did the authors manage liver transplantation in their analysis? Similarly, the therapeutic
manipulations of HCC?
4) How did the authors indetify the cut offs for each variable (e.g. AFP, gGT etc?) Why they
did not analyse these variables as continues?
Title: Mortality rates and risk factors in 1,412 Japanese patients with decompensated hepatitis
C virus-related cirrhosis: A retrospective long-term cohort study
Version: 1 Date: 13 Dec 2020
Reviewer's report:
This an interesting and well written paper, but some issues should be addressed by the authors
1) Did the authors evaluate MELD score?
2) In Table 1 proportions % would be useful as well as to present the comparison between died
and alive pts
3) How did the authors manage liver transplantation in their analysis? Similarly, the therapeutic
manipulations of HCC?
4) How did the authors indetify the cut offs for each variable (e.g. AFP, gGT etc?) Why they
did not analyse these variables as continues?
Please review this paper.
user
Title: Mortality rates and risk factors in 1,412 Japanese patients with decompensated hepatitis
C virus-related cirrhosis: A retrospective long-term cohort study
Version: 1 Date: 13 Dec 2020
Reviewer's report:
This an interesting and well written paper, but some issues should be addressed by the authors
1) Did the authors evaluate MELD score?
2) In Table 1 proportions % would be useful as well as to present the comparison between died
and alive pts
3) How did the authors manage liver transplantation in their analysis? Similarly, the therapeutic
manipulations of HCC?
4) How did the authors indetify the cut offs for each variable (e.g. AFP, gGT etc?) Why they
did not analyse these variables as continues?
assistant