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Table 4 Incidence rates and adjusted incidence rate ratios of severe hepatotoxicity: main analysis and sensitivity analysis

From: Retrospective cohort study comparing the risk of severe hepatotoxicity in hospitalized patients treated with echinocandins for invasive candidiasis in the presence of confounding by indication

 

Total person-days

Number of outcome events (incidence rate per 30 person-days)

Adjusted IRR (95% CI)P-values

Anidulafungin

Caspofungin

Micafungin

Anidulafungin

Caspofungin

Micafungin

Anidulafungin versus caspofungin

Anidulafungin versus micafungin

Main analysis

Sample: all patients

Outcome: severe hepatotoxicity

26449

85020

102267

633 (0.72)

993 (0.35)

1522 (0.45)

1.43 (1.14, 1.79)*

0.002*

1.19 (0.92, 1.54)

0.183

Sensitivity analyses

Subgroup: patients with normal LFT at baseline (Grade 0)

Outcome: severe hepatotoxicity

6538

23703

33926

26 (0.12)

67 (0.08)

131 (0.12)

0.88 (0.36, 2.14)

0.773

0.97 (0.46, 2.08)

0.945

Subgroup: patients with normal to moderately elevated LFT at baseline (Grades 0–2)

Outcome: severe hepatotoxicity

20102

69188

84415

154 (0.23)

343 (0.15)

513 (0.18)

1.46 (0.91, 2.37)

0.119

1.62 (0.95, 2.77)

0.078

Sample: all patients

Outcome: all-cause in-hospital death

38246

104801

126348

581 (0.46)

1188 (0.34)

1544 (0.37)

1.26 (1.07, 1.48)*

0.007*

0.93 (0.77, 1.12)

0.444

  1. *P-value < 0.05
  2. Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, IRR incidence rate ratio, LFT liver function test