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Table 1 Patients’ Characteristics

From: Immune-escape mutations and stop-codons in HBsAg develop in a large proportion of patients with chronic HBV infection exposed to anti-HBV drugs in Europe

 

Overall

(N = 828)

Genotype-A

(N = 255)

Genotype-D

(N = 573)

P-valued

General

 Median Age (IQR), years

45 (38–59)

45 (33–56)

49 (40–59)

0.001

 Male, N(%)a

584 (70.5)

183 (74.4)

401 (73.6)

0.810

CHB-related data

 Median HBV-DNA, log IU/ml (IQR)

4.4 (3.2–6.4)

4.7(3.3–6.9)

4.4 (3.2–6.3)

0.079

 HBeAg positive, N(%)b

183 (44.1)

71 (59.7)

112 (38)

< 0.001

 Median ALT, IU/L (IQR)

46.5 (32–78)

46 (30–80)

48 (32–78)

0.473

Geographical origin, N(%)

 Western Europe

142 (17.1)

67 (26.3)

75 (13.1)

< 0.001

 Northern Europe

26 (3.1)

10 (3.9)

16 (2.8)

0.519

 Eastern Europe

131 (15.8)

99 (38.8)

32 (5.6)

< 0.001

 Southern Europe

529 (63.9)

79 (31)

450 (78.5)

< 0.001

Anti-HBV drug history, N(%)c

Monotherapy

  LAM

406 (62.5)

157 (66.8)

249 (60)

0.085

  ADV

32 (4.9)

10 (4.3)

22 (5.3)

0.554

  ETV

31 (4.8)

7 (3)

24 (5.8)

0.107

  TDF

5 (0.8)

2 (0.9)

3 (0.7)

0.857

  LdT

3 (0.5)

1 (0.4)

2 (0.5)

1.000

Dual exposure

  LAM + ADV

115 (17.7)

27 (11.5)

88 (21.2)

0.002

  LAM + TDF

21 (3.2)

14 (6)

7 (1.7)

0.003

  LAM + ETV

17 (2.6)

10 (4.3)

7 (1.7)

0.045

  ADV + ETV

4 (0.6)

3 (1.3)

1 (0.2)

0.137

  ETV + TDF

3 (0.5)

3 (1.3)

0 (0)

0.047

  ADV + ETV

1 (0.2)

0 (0)

1 (0.2)

1.000

Triple exposure

  LAM + ADV + ETV

5 (0.8)

1 (0.4)

4 (1)

0.450

  LAM + ADV + TDF

7 (1.1)

0 (0)

7 (1.7)

0.045

  1. a Percentages are calculated on 791 patients with the datum available, 246 patients for genotype A and 545 for genotype D
  2. b Percentages are calculated on 414 patients with the datum available, 119 patients for genotype A and 295 for genotype D
  3. c Percentages are calculated on 650 patients with the type of anti-HBV drugs available, 235 patients for genotype A and 415 for genotype D
  4. d Statistically significant difference was assessed by Chi-squared Test based on a 2 × 2 contingency table
  5. P-value in italic are statistically significant
  6. Abbreviations: ADV adefovir, ETV entecavir, IQR interquartile range, LAM lamivudine, LdT telbivudine, TDF tenofovir