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المستخلص
Background Nutritional status of patients with liver cirrhosis have recently shown great diversity, some show protein energy malnutrition and others excessive nutrition and obesity. Many studies have investigated energy and protein metabolism in cirrhotic patients; however there are few studies regarding nutritional intake in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) - related liver cirrhosis (LC-C). Objective: The aim of our study is to assess the nutritional status among a group of Egyptian patients with Child{u2019}s A liver cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis C patients without cirrhosis and comparing them with age- and sex- matched healthy volunteers. Results: By SGA method , that there were highly significant statistical differences between the different studied groups as regard the different components of SGA including weight loss (p=0.008), dietary intake (p=0.013), functional capacity (p=0.008) and GIT symptoms (p=0.008). The majority of the liver cirrhosis (25/40), chronic HCV(29/40) and healthy control groups (37/40) were well- nourished (Graded an {u2018}A{u2019}) on SGA rating and the rest of the subjects were mild to moderately malnourished (Graded a {u2018}B{u2019} )on SGA rating , although this did not reach statistical significance (p=0.958).Regarding the dietary intake, there were no statistically significant differences regarding different paterens of daily protein or caloric intake .In HCV-related cirrhosis group: There is a highly significant positive correlation of BMI with TST, MAC, MAMC and subscapular skin fold thickness with p values =0.000. BMI showed a non significant inverse correlation with the SGA.In chronic hepatitis C patients group: There is a highly significant positive correlation of BMI with TST, sub-scapular skin fold thickness, MAMC and MAC parameters with p values =0.000, 0.000, 0.0351, 0.04 respectively. BMI showed a non significant inverse correlation with the SGA