.45; 95% CI, 0.52-37.9). A strong and statistically significant association was found, however, between obesity and steatosis (OR, 4.18) and between steatosis and the highest degree of histological severity (Liver cirrhosis vs chronic persistent hepatitis: OR, 12.8). Using multivariate analysis, the association between steatosis and HCV was shown to be not significant. Hyperlipidaemia, among all the independent variables tested, was shown to be co-linear with obesity.