A total of 161 cases were diagnosed as hepatic cirrhosis during the study period. Fifty-two cases were excluded (35 were excluded due to history of other systemic diseases, 3 participants were excluded due to excessive missing data, and 14 patients with confirmed severe complications were excluded). Therefore, a total of 109 patients met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. All participants had a mean age of 53.9 (SD = 9.7) years, were 60.6% male, 94.5% were with a history of HBV infection (see Table 1). During 36 months of follow-up, 34 out of 109 cirrhotic patients were confirmed to have HCC eventually (31.2%).