APOB and cirrhosis, familial: As the overload of cholesterol has been identified as one of the most important key mechanisms for inducing inflammation (17), and the steatohepatitis was associated with lower hepatic fat content, this was often observed in those with cryptogenic cirrhosis; therefore, those patients with higher burden of serum total cholesterol, LDL-c, or ApoB would present smaller OR value in the quartile 4 group (24).