Hormone replacement therapy is associated with reduced hepatocellular carcinoma risk and improved survival in postmenopausal women with hepatitis B: A nationwide long-term population-based cohort study
Chun-Hsiang Wang 1 2 , Ruey-Chang Lin 1 , Hua-Yin Hsu 3 , Yuan-Tsung Tseng 4
Affiliations
Affiliations
1
Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Tainan Municipal Hospital (Managed by Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation), Tainan, Taiwan.
2
Department of Optometry, Chung Hwa Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan.
3
Departments of Nursing, Tainan Municipal Hospital (Managed by Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation), Tainan City, Taiwan.
4
Committee of Medical Research, Tainan Municipal Hospital (Managed by Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation), Tainan, Taiwan.
PMID: 35862398 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271790
Abstract
Postmenopausal women with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are more likely to have accelerated liver fibrosis, eventually advancing to liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The association between sex hormones and HBV-related HCC risk is unclear. We investigated whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is beneficial to postmenopausal women with HBV infection. This retrospective study selected the data of 44,465patients with HBV infection between January 2000 and December 2018 from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. After excluding patients with preexisting liver diseases, liver cirrhosis, or liver malignancies, we grouped the remaining 10,474 patients by whether they had undergone HRT for at least 3 months (n = 5,638) and whether they had not received HRT (n = 4,836). After propensity score matching, we assigned 3080 patients to an HRT cohort and matched them (1:1) with those in a non-HRT cohort. The incidence of HCC (P < 0.022) and all-cause mortality rate (P < 0.001) were lower in the HRT cohort than in the non-HRT cohort. The liver cirrhosis risk was not significantly higher in the HRT cohort (P = 0.355). HRT is associated with reduced HCC risk and improved survival outcomes but is unrelated to liver cirrhosis development in postmenopausal women.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. 作者: Joebruin 时间: 2022-7-22 23:41