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Introduction<\/strong> \u2014 The health care burden of chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) infection can be reduced by appropriate workup, treatment, and monitoring.<\/p>\n

Methods<\/strong> \u2014 As a primary objective, we determined whether adequate initial hepatitis B virus (HBV) laboratory workup in CHB patients is associated with improved CHB complications risk. Secondary outcomes assessed included: mortality, hospitalization, emergency department, and liver specialist visits. We conducted a retrospective cohort study from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2018. Participants were followed from 12 months post index event until outcome occurrence, death, loss of eligibility, or 31 March 2023. Health administrative data from Ontario, Canada was utilized. The study cohort included individuals with at least one positive result of either hepatitis B surface antigen, hepatitis B e antigen, or HBV DNA viral load documented during the study window. The exposure of interest was defined as adequate laboratory workup, defined as having subsequent quantitative HBV DNA, and alanine aminotransferase testing completed within 12 months of the index event. CHB-related complications were assessed using previously validated diagnostic codes. Modified Poisson regression modelling was used to estimate relative risks.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong> \u2014 The study cohort consisted of 30,794 CHB patients, with a mean age 45.7 years. The majority were male (53.5%) and within the lowest two income quintiles (50.2%). In total, 68.0% underwent adequate workup. Individuals with adequate workup were more likely to be older, male, urban based, and of the highest racialized and newcomer populations quintile. The risk for CHB complications was 1.50 (95% CI 1.36\u20131.65) times greater among those with adequate workup. By multivariable analysis, adequate workup was associated with a lower risk of mortality (RR 0.78; 95% CI 0.69\u20130.87), all-cause hospitalizations (RR 0.77; 95% CI 0.74\u20130.80), all-cause (RR 0.77; 95% CI 0.75\u20130.78), and liver-related (RR 0.67; 95% CI 0.60\u20130.75) ED visits.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong> \u2014 Adequate CHB clinical workup is associated with improved patient outcomes. Our findings advocate for the comprehensive evaluation of CHB patients using key laboratory tests to optimize clinical management and improve long-term health outcomes. We identified gaps in the workup of young adults, females, and those residing in rural settings, which should be addressed to ensure equity of HBV care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2014 The health care burden of chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) infection can be reduced by appropriate workup, treatment, and monitoring. Methods \u2014 As a primary objective, we determined whether adequate initial hepatitis B virus (HBV) laboratory workup in CHB patients is associated with improved CHB complications risk. Secondary outcomes assessed included: mortality, hospitalization, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[42,48,39,35],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-23167","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry","topic-chronic-diseases-and-multimorbidity","topic-gastroenterology","topic-infectious-diseases","topic-public-health"],"acf":{"citation":"Imsirovic H, Hung J-H, Dumicho AY, Manuel D, MacFadden DR, Cooper CL. 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