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Title: Nonresponse to Interferon-? Based Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection Is Associated with Increased Hazard of Cirrhosis
Authors: Cozen M.L.
Ryan J.C.
Shen H. 
Lerrigo R.
Yee R.M.
Sheen E.
Wu R.
Monto A.
Keywords: alpha interferon
peginterferon alpha
ribavirin
alpha interferon
adult
aged
article
clinical assessment
controlled study
disease association
drug treatment failure
female
follow up
hepatitis C
human
human tissue
liver biopsy
liver cirrhosis
liver fibrosis
major clinical study
male
overall survival
patient attitude
retrospective study
risk assessment
risk factor
treatment outcome
complication
disease course
Hepatitis C, Chronic
liver cirrhosis
middle aged
recurrent disease
reproducibility
survival
time
treatment failure
Hepatitis C virus
Aged
Disease Progression
Female
Hepatitis C, Chronic
Humans
Interferon-alpha
Liver Cirrhosis
Male
Middle Aged
Recurrence
Reproducibility of Results
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Survival Analysis
Time Factors
Treatment Failure
Issue Date: 2013
Citation: Cozen M.L., Ryan J.C., Shen H., Lerrigo R., Yee R.M., Sheen E., Wu R., Monto A. (2013). Nonresponse to Interferon-? Based Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection Is Associated with Increased Hazard of Cirrhosis. PLoS ONE 8 (4) : e61568. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061568
Abstract: Background:The long-term consequences of unsuccessful interferon-? based hepatitis C treatment on liver disease progression and survival have not been fully explored.Methods and Findings:We performed retrospective analyses to assess long-term clinical outcomes among treated and untreated patients with hepatitis C virus in two independent cohorts from a United States Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a University Teaching Hospital. Eligible patients underwent liver biopsy during consideration for interferon-? based treatment between 1992 and 2007. They were assessed for the probability of developing cirrhosis and of dying during follow-up using Cox proportional hazards models, stratified by pretreatment liver fibrosis stage and adjusted for known risk factors for cirrhosis and characteristics affecting treatment selection. The major predictor was a time-dependent covariate for treatment outcome among four patient groups: 1) patients with sustained virological response to treatment; 2) treatment relapsers; 3) treatment nonresponders; and 4) never treated patients. Treatment nonresponders in both cohorts had a statistically significantly increased hazard of cirrhosis compared to never treated patients, as stratified by pretreatment liver fibrosis stage and adjusted for clinical and psychosocial risk factors that disproportionately affect patients who were ineligible for treatment (Veterans Affairs HR = 2.35, CI 1.18-4.69, mean follow-up 10 years, and University Hospital HR = 5.90, CI 1.50-23.24, mean follow-up 7.7 years). Despite their increased risk for liver disease progression, the overall survival of nonresponders in both cohorts was not significantly different from that of never treated patients.Conclusion:These unexpected findings suggest that patients who receive interferon-? based therapies but fail to clear the hepatitis C virus may have an increased hazard of cirrhosis compared to untreated patients. © 2013.
Source Title: PLoS ONE
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/161328
ISSN: 19326203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061568
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