Clinical characteristics of study subjects.

‘No’ means non-detected. ‘Drinkers’ was defined as alcohol consumption of >40 g/week, which included occasional drinkers and daily drinkers. Abbreviations: Clear, HBV clearance group; Health, Healthy control group; AsC, Asymptomatic HBV carriers group; CHB, Chronic active hepatitis B group; LC,HBV-related liver cirrhosis group; HCC, HBV-related heptocellular carcinoma group;