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Observational studyMedicine2015

Association Between Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Risk of Osteoporosis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.

Chien-Hua Chen, Cheng-Li Lin, Chia-Hung Kao

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33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Comparison of bone mineral density changes between denosumab and bisphosphonates in tenofovir-exposed chronic hepatitis B patients with osteoporosis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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  6. Emerging role of liver-bone axis in osteoporosis.Journal of orthopaedic translation · 2024
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  10. [Chronic hepatitis B virus infection-related osteoporosis].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2023
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  14. Secondary Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022
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  19. 3-year Treatment of Tenofovir AlafenamideJournal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Chien-Hua ChenFrom the Digestive Disease Center, Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua (C-HC), Hungkuang University, Taichung (C-HC), Meiho University of Technology, Pingtung (C-HC), Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital (C-LL), College of Medicine (C-LL), Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University (C-HK); and Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C-HK).
Cheng-Li Lin
Chia-Hung Kao

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effect of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection on bone mineral density in patients without advanced liver disease remains unclear. Hence, we assessed the association between HBV infection and the risk of osteoporosis. From 2000 to 2011, patients older than 20 years with HBV infection were identified from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000. Of the 180,730 sampled patients, 36,146 and 144,584 patients were categorized into HBV infection and comparison cohorts, respectively. Compared with the comparison cohort, the HBV infection patients had a higher risk of osteoporosis (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]: 1.14, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.03-1.25) after adjusting for age, sex, frequency of medical visits, and comorbidities of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, cirrhosis, chronic kidney disease, thyroid diseases, medication of steroid, PPI, warfarin, aspirin, and estrogen replacement therapy. The patients with HBV infection exhibited a 1.13-fold (95% CI = 1.03-1.25) higher risk of developing osteoporosis, but the risk of osteoporotic fracture was comparable between patients with HBV infection and the comparison cohort (aHR = 1.20, 95% CI = 0.77-1.86). The incidence of osteoporosis increased with the increment of age (age  ≤ 49: aHR = 1; age 50-64: aHR = 5.67, 95% CI = 5.09-6.32; age  ≧ 65: aHR = 13.3, 95% CI = 11.8-14.9) and coexisting cirrhosis (aHR = 1.62, 95% CI = 1.24-2.12). However, the osteoporosis risk contributed by HBV infection decreased with age and the age-specific risk analyses showed that patients with HBV infection exhibited the highest risk of osteoporosis than patients without HBV infection for the patients aged ≤49 (aHR = 1.42, 95% CI = 1.19-1.70). Furthermore, the osteoporosis risk contributed by HBV infection has decreased with the presence of comorbidity (aHR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.09-1.48 vs aHR = 1.04, 95% CI = 0.91-1.15). HBV increases the risk of osteoporosis, but HBV infection may be less influential than other risk factors. Moreover, HBV has no detrimental effect on osteoporotic fracture in this study.

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AdultAgedCohort StudiesDatabases, FactualFemaleHepatitis B, ChronicHumansIncidenceInsurance, HealthMaleMiddle AgedOsteoporosisOsteoporotic FracturesRisk AssessmentTaiwan

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