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. 2022 Feb 21;11(4):1126. doi: 10.3390/jcm11041126

Table 1.

Studies comparing the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients treated with entecavir vs. tenofovir.

First Author Year Design Race Country Mean Age (yr) Males ETV
n (%)
Males TDF
n (%)
Total Patient
n (%)
ETV
n (%)
TDF
n (%)
HCC in ETV
n (%)
HCC in TDF
n (%)
Cirrhosis before ETV
n (%)
Cirrhosis before TDF
n (%)
HbeAg Pos ETV
n (%)
HbeAg Pos TDF
n (%)
HBV DNA Baseline ETV
(Log IU/mL)
HBV DNA Baseline TDF
(Log IU/mL)
BMI ETV BMI TDF DM ETV
n (%)
DM TDF
n (%)
Riveiro-Barciela [52] 2017 Cohort Cauca-sian Spain 50 ± 13 139 (74.3) 305 (71.9) 611 187 (31) 424 (69) 3 (1.6) 11 (2.5) 64 (34.2) 133 (31.4) 34 (18.2) 67 (15.8) 4.9 ± 2.4 3.8 ± 2.3 - - - -
Seung Up Kim [51] 2019 Cohort Asian South Korea 48.4 ± 11.7 889 (59.9) 913 (64.6) 2897 1484 (51.2) 1413 (48.7) 138 (9.2) 102 (7.2) 499 (33.6) 411 (29.1) 758 (51.1) 694 (49.1) 5.7 ± 2.1 5.4 ± 2.1 23.8 ± 4.5 23.8 ± 2.9 121 (8.15) 106 (7.5)
Jonggi Choi [49] 2019 Cohort Asian Korea 48.8 ± 10.5 965 (61.9) 692 (60.6) 2701 1560 (57.7) 1141 (42.2) 115 (7.3) 39 (3.4) 935 (59.9) 653 (57.2) 853 (54.7) 641 (56.2) 6.7 6.4 - - 94 (6) 62 (5.4)
Sung Won Lee [57] 2020 Cohort Asian South Korea 47 926 (58.5) 841 (58.4) 3022 1583 (52.3) 1439 (47.6) 84 (5.3) 50 (3.5) 567 (35.82) 483 (33.56) 974 (61.5) 823 (57.1) 6.49 (5.28, 7.67) 6.41 (5.34, 7.49) 23.7 23.7 159 (10) 105 (7.3)
Terry Cheuk-Fung Yip [60] 2020 Cohort Asian China 52.9 ± 13.2 18,094 (47.3) 591 (45.1) 29,350 28,041 (95.5) 1309 (4.5) 1386 (4.9) 8 (0.6) 3822 (13.6) 38 (2.9) 8317 (29.7) 721 (55.1) 5.3 ± 2.2 4.9 ± 2.7 - - 6366 (22.7) 93 (7.1)
Ingyoon Ha [56] 2020 Cohort Asian South Korea 45 558 (61) 266 (63) 1340 921 (68.7) 419 (31.2) 82 (8.9) 24 (5.7) 259 (28) 39 (9.3) 488 (53) 261 (62) 6.36 6.67 22.2 22.3 98 (11) 22 (5)
George V. Papatheodoridis [55] 2020 Cohort Cauca-sian Europe 52 ± 14 538 (70) 827 (71) 1951 772 (39.5) 1163 (59.6) 50 (6.5) 93 (8) 166 (21.5) 358 (30.8) 110 (14.2) 233 (20) - - 26.1 ± 3.8 25.8 ± 5.3 39 (7) 77 (10.8)

Abbreviations: entecavir (ETV); tenofovir (TDF); hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg); body mass index (BMI); diabetes mellitus (DM).