Abstract:
GOALS:To understand the degree to which psychosocial factors were preventing veterans with chronic hepatitis C virus from being eligible for antiviral treatment. BACKGROUND:Nearly 2% of the US population is infected with hepatitis C. Antiviral treatment requires substantial adherence despite challenging side effects. Psychosocial factors, including depression and substance abuse, are clinically recognized contraindications for antiviral treatment. STUDY:At the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center HCV Clinic, we prospectively gathered medical and psychosocial data, as well as treatment disposition data, for consecutively referred patients who had screened positive for hepatitis C by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay serology. RESULTS:Of the 697 patients referred from September 2000 to May 2001, 580 had chronic hepatitis C. The mean age was 51 years, and 99% were men. Psychosocial contraindications prevented hepatitis C antiviral treatment from being started for 406 (70.0%) patients. These contraindications included alcohol abuse (124, 21.4%), substance abuse (21, 3.6%), and depression (93, 16.0%). Among the medical contraindications were end-stage liver disease (34, 5.9%) and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (20, 3.4%). CONCLUSION:Overall, our experience was that a significant portion of hepatitis C patients could not initially be started on antiviral treatment due to psychosocial factors. To make these patients eligible for treatment, future studies of multidisciplinary interventions are required.
journal_name
J Clin Gastroenteroljournal_title
Journal of clinical gastroenterologyauthors
Rowan PJ,Tabasi S,Abdul-Latif M,Kunik ME,El-Serag HBdoi
10.1097/01.mcg.0000123203.36471.70subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-07-01 00:00:00pages
530-4issue
6eissn
0192-0790issn
1539-2031pii
00004836-200407000-00012journal_volume
38pub_type
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更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00