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ABSTRACT: Background and aims
HIV-positive patients on tenofovir hydroxyl fumarate (TDF)/emtricitabine have a lower risk of COVID-19 and hospitalization than those given other treatments. Our aim was to analyze the severity of COVID-19 in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) on TDF or entecavir (ETV).Methods
Spanish hospital databases (n = 28) including information regarding adult CHB patients on TDF or ETV for the period February 1st to November 30th 2020 were searched for COVID-19, defined as a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction, and for severe COVID-19.Results
Of 4736 patients, 117 had COVID-19 (2.5%), 67 on TDF and 50 on ETV. Compared to patients on TDF, those on ETV showed (p < 0.05) greater rates of obesity, diabetes, ischemic cardiopathy, and hypertension. COVID-19 incidence was similar in both groups (2.3 vs. 2.6%). Compared to TDF, patients on ETV more often (p < 0.01) had severe COVID-19 (36 vs. 6%), required intensive care unit (ICU) (10% vs. 0) or ventilatory support (20 vs. 3%), were hospitalized for longer (10.8 ± 19 vs. 3.1 ± 7 days) or died (10 vs. 1.5%, p = 0.08). In an IPTW propensity score analysis adjusted for age, sex, obesity, comorbidities, and fibrosis stage, TDF was associated with a sixfold reduction in severe COVID-19 risk (adjusted-IPTW-OR 0.17, 95%CI 0.04-0.67, p = 0.01).Conclusion
Compared to ETV, TDF seems to play a protective role in CHB patients with SARS-CoV-2 whereby the risk of severe COVID-19 is lowered.
SUBMITTER: Mateos-Munoz B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897881 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Mateos-Muñoz Beatriz B Buti María M Vázquez Inmaculada Fernández IF Conde Marta Hernández MH Bernal-Monterde Vanesa V Díaz-Fontenla Fernando F Morillas Rosa María RM García-Buey Luisa L Badía Ester E Miquel Mireia M Amador-Navarrete Alberto A Rodríguez-Tajes Sergio S Ramos-Merino Lucía L Madejón Antonio A García-Retortillo Montserrat M Arenas Juan Ignacio JI Cabezas Joaquín J Santiago Jesús Manuel González JMG Fernández-Rodríguez Conrado C Cordero Patricia P Diago Moisés M Mancebo Antonio A Pardo Alberto A Rodríguez Manuel M Hoyas Elena E Moreno Jose Javier JJ Turnes Juan J Simón Miguel Ángel MÁ Marcos-Fosch Cristina C Calleja Jose Luis JL Bañares Rafael R Lens Sabela S Garcia-Samaniego Javier J Crespo Javier J Romero-Gomez Manuel M Gea Francisco F de Santiago Enrique Rodríguez ER Moreno Santiago S Albillos Agustin A
Digestive diseases and sciences 20230203 6
<h4>Background and aims</h4>HIV-positive patients on tenofovir hydroxyl fumarate (TDF)/emtricitabine have a lower risk of COVID-19 and hospitalization than those given other treatments. Our aim was to analyze the severity of COVID-19 in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) on TDF or entecavir (ETV).<h4>Methods</h4>Spanish hospital databases (n = 28) including information regarding adult CHB patients on TDF or ETV for the period February 1st to November 30th 2020 were searched for COVID-19, de ...[more]