Impact of HBeAg on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk During Oral Antiviral Treatment in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Antiviral treatment from hepatitis B envelope antigen (HBeAg)-positive status may attenuate the integration of hepatitis B virus DNA into the host genome causing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We investigated the impact of HBeAg status at the onset of antiviral treatment on the risk of HCC.

METHODS: The incidence of HCC was evaluated in Korean patients with chronic hepatitis B who started entecavir or tenofovir in either HBeAg-positive or HBeAg-negative phase. The results in the Korean cohort were validated in a Caucasian PAGE-B cohort.

RESULTS: A total of 9143 Korean patients (mean age, 49.2 years) were included: 49.1% were HBeAg-positive and 49.2% had cirrhosis. During follow-up (median, 5.1 years), 916 patients (10.0%) developed HCC. Baseline HBeAg positivity was not associated with the risk of HCC in the entire cohort or cirrhotic subcohort. However, in the non-cirrhotic subcohort, HBeAg positivity was independently associated with a lower risk of HCC in multivariable (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 0.41; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.26-0.66), propensity score-matching (aHR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.28-0.76), and inverse probability weighting analyses (aHR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.28-0.70). In the Caucasian cohort (n = 719; mean age, 51.8 years; HBeAg-positive, 20.3%; cirrhosis, 34.8%), HBeAg-positivity was not associated with the risk of HCC either in the entire cohort or cirrhotic subcohort. In the non-cirrhotic subcohort, none of the HBeAg-positive group developed HCC, although the difference failed to reach statistical significance (aHR, 0.21; 95% CI, 0.00-1.67).

CONCLUSIONS: This multinational cohort study implies that HBeAg positivity at the onset of antiviral treatment seems to be an independent factor associated with a lower risk of HCC in patients with chronic hepatitis B without cirrhosis, but not in those with cirrhosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association - 20(2022), 6 vom: 30. Juni, Seite 1343-1353.e16

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jang, Heejoon [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Jun Sik [VerfasserIn]
Park, Soo Young [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Han Ah [VerfasserIn]
Jang, Myoung-Jin [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Seung Up [VerfasserIn]
Sinn, Dong Hyun [VerfasserIn]
Seo, Yeon Seok [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hwi Young [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Sung Eun [VerfasserIn]
Jun, Dae Won [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Eileen L [VerfasserIn]
Sohn, Joo Hyun [VerfasserIn]
Ahn, Sang Bong [VerfasserIn]
Shim, Jae-Jun [VerfasserIn]
Jeong, Soung Won [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Yong Kyun [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hyoung Su [VerfasserIn]
Nam, Joon Yeul [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Yun Bin [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Yoon Jun [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Jung-Hwan [VerfasserIn]
Zoulim, Fabien [VerfasserIn]
Lampertico, Pietro [VerfasserIn]
Dalekos, George N [VerfasserIn]
Idilman, Ramazan [VerfasserIn]
Sypsa, Vana [VerfasserIn]
Berg, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Buti, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Calleja, Jose Luis [VerfasserIn]
Goulis, John [VerfasserIn]
Manolakopoulos, Spilios [VerfasserIn]
Janssen, Harry LA [VerfasserIn]
Papatheodoridis, George V [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jeong-Hoon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
Cumulative Incidence
DNA
Hepatitis B Antigens
Hepatitis B Virus
Hepatitis B e Antigens
Journal Article
Liver Cancer
Neoplasm
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 09.05.2022

Date Revised 06.06.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cgh.2021.09.001

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NLM330423584