Mortality in patients with chronic hepatitis B treated with tenofovir or entecavir : A multinational study

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BACKGROUND AND AIM: The benefits of entecavir (ETV) versus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) in reducing the development of chronic hepatitis B (CHB)-related hepatocellular carcinoma remain controversial. Whether mortality rates differ between patients with CHB treated with ETV and those treated with TDF is unclear.

METHODS: A total of 2542 patients with CHB treated with either ETV or TDF were recruited from a multinational cohort. A 1:1 propensity score matching was performed to balance the differences in baseline characteristics between the two patient groups. We aimed to compare the all-cause, liver-related, and non-liver-related mortality between patients receiving ETV and those receiving TDF.

RESULTS: The annual incidence of all-cause mortality in the entire cohort was 1.0/100 person-years (follow-up, 15 757.5 person-years). Patients who received TDF were younger and had a higher body mass index, platelet count, hepatitis B virus deoxyribonucleic acid levels, and proportion of hepatitis B e-antigen seropositivity than those who received ETV. The factors associated with all-cause mortality were fibrosis-4 index > 6.5 (hazard ratio [HR]/confidence interval [CI]: 3.13/2.15-4.54, P < 0.001), age per year increase (HR/CI: 1.05/1.04-1.07, P < 0.001), alanine aminotransferase level per U/L increase (HR/CI: 0.997/0.996-0.999, P = 0.003), and γ-glutamyl transferase level per U/L increase (HR/CI: 1.002/1.001-1.003, P < 0.001). No significant difference in all-cause mortality was observed between the ETV and TDF groups (log-rank test, P = 0.69). After propensity score matching, no significant differences in all-cause, liver-related, or non-liver-related mortality were observed between the two groups.

CONCLUSIONS: Long-term outcomes of all-cause mortality and liver-related and non-liver-related mortality did not differ between patients treated with ETV and those receiving TDF.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - (2024) vom: 13. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jang, Tyng-Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Po-Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Jun, Dae Won [VerfasserIn]
Jung, Jang Han [VerfasserIn]
Toyoda, Hidenori [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chih-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Man-Fung [VerfasserIn]
Cheung, Ka Shing [VerfasserIn]
Yasuda, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Sung Eun [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Eileen L [VerfasserIn]
An, Jihyun [VerfasserIn]
Enomoto, Masaru [VerfasserIn]
Kozuka, Ritsuzo [VerfasserIn]
Chuma, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Nozaki, Akito [VerfasserIn]
Ishikawa, Toru [VerfasserIn]
Watanabe, Tsunamasa [VerfasserIn]
Atsukawa, Masanori [VerfasserIn]
Arai, Taeang [VerfasserIn]
Hayama, Korenobu [VerfasserIn]
Ishigami, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Yong Kyun [VerfasserIn]
Ogawa, Eiichi [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hyoung Su [VerfasserIn]
Shim, Jae-Jun [VerfasserIn]
Uojima, Haruki [VerfasserIn]
Jeong, Soung Won [VerfasserIn]
Ahn, Sang Bong [VerfasserIn]
Takaguchi, Koichi [VerfasserIn]
Senoh, Tomonori [VerfasserIn]
Buti, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Vargas-Accarino I, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Abe, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Takahashi, Hirokazu [VerfasserIn]
Inoue, Kaori [VerfasserIn]
Yeh, Ming-Lun [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Chia-Yen [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Jee-Fu [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chung-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Chuang, Wan-Long [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Mindie H [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Ming-Lung [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigen
Antiviral
Cohort
ETV
Fibrosis
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal Article
Liver
NA
Prognosis
TDF

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Date Revised 13.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1111/jgh.16537

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NLM369697189