Long-term trends in hepatitis C prevalence, treatment uptake and liver-related events in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections changed dramatically in the last decade. We assessed changes in the prevalence of replicating HCV infection, treatment uptake and liver-related morbidity and mortality in persons with HIV (PWH) and hepatitis C in the Swiss HIV cohort study.

METHODS: We included all cohort participants between 2002 and 2021. We assessed yearly prevalence of replicating HCV infection, overall and liver-related mortality, as well as the yearly incidence of liver-related events in persons with at least one documented positive HCV-RNA.

RESULTS: Of 14 652 participants under follow-up, 2294 had at least one positive HCV-RNA measurement. Of those, 1316 (57%) ever received an HCV treatment. Treatment uptake increased from 8.1% in 2002 to a maximum of 32.6% in 2016. Overall, prevalence of replicating HCV infection declined from 16.5% in 2004 to 1.3% in 2021. HCV prevalence declined from 63.2% to 7.1% in persons who inject drugs, and from 4.1% to 0.6% in men who have sex with men. Among the 2294 persons with replicating HCV infection, overall mortality declined from a maximum of 3.3 per 100 patient-years (PY) to 1.1 per 100 PY, and incidence of liver-related events decreased from 1.4/100 PY to 0.2/100 PY.

CONCLUSIONS: The introduction of DAA therapy was associated with a more than 10-fold reduction in prevalence of replicating HCV infection in PWH, approaching the estimates in the general population. Overall mortality and liver-related events declined substantially in persons living with HIV and hepatitis C.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:44

Enthalten in:

Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 44(2024), 1 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 169-179

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Baumann, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Braun, Dominique L [VerfasserIn]
Cavassini, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Stoeckle, Marcel [VerfasserIn]
Bernasconi, Enos [VerfasserIn]
Schmid, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Calmy, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Haerry, David [VerfasserIn]
Béguelin, Charles [VerfasserIn]
Fux, Christoph A [VerfasserIn]
Wandeler, Gilles [VerfasserIn]
Surial, Bernard [VerfasserIn]
Rauch, Andri [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

63231-63-0
Antiviral Agents
DAA
HCV
HIV
HIV coinfection
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C treatment outcomes
Journal Article
RNA
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 20.12.2023

Date Revised 19.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/liv.15754

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363432221