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Adverse Effects of Vitamin D Deficiency on Outcomes of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B
Grace Lai-Hung Wong,*,‡,§Henry Lik-Yuen Chan,*,‡,§Hoi-Yun Chan,*,‡,§Chi-Hang Tse,*,‡,§ Angel Mei-Ling Chim,*,‡Angeline Oi-Shan Lo,*,‡and Vincent Wai-Sun Wong*,‡,§
*Institute of Digestive Disease,‡Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and§State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Vitamin D is an immunomodulator that might be involved in the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis. We investigated the effects of vitamin D deficiency on long-term outcomes of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). METHODS: We performed a prospective cohort study of 426 patients with CHB (65% male; mean age, 41 – 13 years), who were enrolled from 1997 through 2000. Serum levels of 25- hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D3) were measured on study enrollment (baseline). Patients were followed for 159 – 46 months until last clinic visit or death; approximately 33% received antiviral therapy during the follow-up period. The primary outcome was a clinical event (he- patocellular carcinoma, complications of cirrhosis, or death).
RESULTS: At baseline, the patients’ mean serum level of hepatitis B virus DNA was 5.0 – 2.1 log10IU/mL; their mean level of 25(OH)D3was 24.3 – 9.4 ng/mL, and 348 patients (82%) had vitamin D deficiency (<32 ng/mL). Serum levels of 25(OH)D3did not correlate with cirrhosis or viral load. Ninety-seven patients (22.8%) developed clinical events by a mean time of 118 – 60 months after study enrollment. Patients who developed clinical events had lower baseline serum levels of 25(OH)D3(23.2 – 10.4 ng/mL) than patients who did not (28.2 – 9.3 ng/mL, P < .001). Low baseline serum 25(OH)D3 was an independent factor associated with clinical events after adjustment for sex, age, and cirrhosis. The adjusted hazard ratio of vitamin D deficiency for clinical events was 1.90 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06–2.43; P [ .04). The 15-year cu- mulative incidence rate of clinical events among patients with vitamin D deficiency was 25.5% (95% CI, 23.1%–27.9%), compared with 11.1% (95% CI, 7.4%–14.8%) in patients with normal serum levels of 25(OH)D3.
CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin D deficiency is common among patients with CHB and is associated with adverse clinical outcomes.
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