Effect of Moderate to Severe Hepatic Steatosis on Vaccine Immunogenicity against Wild-Type and Mutant Virus and COVID-19 Infection among BNT162b2 Recipients

BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate the effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on BNT162b2 immunogenicity against wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and variants and infection outcome, as data are lacking.

METHODS: Recipients of two doses of BNT162b2 were prospectively recruited. Outcomes of interest were seroconversion of neutralizing antibody by live virus microneutralization (vMN) to SARS-CoV-2 strains (wild-type, delta and omicron variants) at day 21, 56 and 180 after first dose. Exposure of interest was moderate-to-severe NAFLD (controlled attenuation parameter ≥ 268 dB/M on transient elastography). We calculated adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of infection with NAFLD by adjusting for age, sex, overweight/obesity, diabetes and antibiotic use.

RESULTS: Of 259 BNT162b2 recipients (90 (34.7%) male; median age: 50.8 years (IQR: 43.6-57.8)), 68 (26.3%) had NAFLD. For wild type, there was no difference in seroconversion rate between NAFLD and control groups at day 21 (72.1% vs. 77.0%; p = 0.42), day 56 (100% vs. 100%) and day 180 (100% and 97.2%; p = 0.22), respectively. For the delta variant, there was no difference also at day 21 (25.0% vs. 29.5%; p = 0.70), day 56 (100% vs. 98.4%; p = 0.57) and day 180 (89.5% vs. 93.3%; p = 0.58), respectively. For the omicron variant, none achieved seroconversion at day 21 and 180. At day 56, there was no difference in seroconversion rate (15.0% vs. 18.0%; p = 0.76). NAFLD was not an independent risk factor of infection (aOR: 1.50; 95% CI: 0.68-3.24).

CONCLUSIONS: NAFLD patients receiving two doses of BNT162b2 had good immunogenicity to wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and the delta variant but not the omicron variant, and they were not at higher risk of infection compared with controls.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 11(2023), 3 vom: 21. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cheung, Ka Shing [VerfasserIn]
Lam, Lok Ka [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Xianhua [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Jing Tong [VerfasserIn]
Ooi, Poh Hwa [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ruiqi [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Kwok Hung [VerfasserIn]
Hung, Ivan F N [VerfasserIn]
Seto, Wai Kay [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Man Fung [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Cirrhosis
Journal Article
NAFLD
SARS-CoV-2
Vaccination

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 01.04.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines11030497

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354970216