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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kim SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6023687 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medicine 20180601 24
We evaluated whether nucleos(t)ide analog (NA) influences the risk of non-hepatocellular carcinoma (non-HCC) malignancies in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). A total of 9867 patients with CHB were followed up for ≥12 months for the occurrence of any type of malignancy between 1998 and 2013. Patients who received NA for ≥180 days were defined as the NA group. Propensity score matching produced the control (n = 2220) and NA groups (n = 2220) after adjustment for age, sex, and the presence ...[more]