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A retrospective cohort study enrolling 1913 patients with symptomatic acute hepatitis E in Beijing 302 Hospital from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2018 was conducted. The baseline characteristics, clinical features and laboratory data of these HEV infection cases were analyzed. Albumin (ALB), platelet (PLT), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), total bilirubin (T-BiL), international normalized ratio (INR) and serum creatinine (SCR) levels, along with the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score, hospitalization days, co-morbidity number and mortality were taken as major parameters for comparing the clinical manifestations in our study. We found that not all pre-existing chronic liver diseases exacerbate clinical manifestations of acute hepatitis E. Alcoholic\u2002hepatitis, fatty liver hepatitis, hepatic cyst, drug-induced hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma were not significantly associated with mortality of HEV patients. 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