GPT and chronic hepatitis B virus infection: Duan et al. evaluated 179 HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B patients with normal ALT and found that the proportion of SLHC in the HBV DNA < 107 IU/mL group was higher than that in the HBV DNA ≥ 107 IU/mL group (81.8% vs. 54.1%, P < 0.05) [7].