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ReviewCanadian liver journal2023

Hepatitis B virus genotypes influence clinical outcomes: A review.

Carolina Fernandes da Silva, Alexa Keeshan, Curtis Cooper

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Review in Canadian liver journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carolina Fernandes da SilvaOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Alexa KeeshanOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Curtis CooperOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a hepatotropic virus that affects approximately 296 million people worldwide. A crucial step to HBV replication is the transcription of its infectious DNA from its viral RNA intermediate. The production of the RNA intermediate hinges on reverse transcription, and therefore the lack of proofreading in that process commonly yields mutants and has led to nine well-described genotypes (A-I) and over 30 known sub-genotypes of the virus. The influence of genotype on HBV infection outcomes, which include fibrosis progression, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), remain uncertain. This review aims to analyze the influence of HBV genotype on the risk of development of these outcomes. The response to current and future HBV therapies is considered. Further study of larger and more diverse samples will hopefully resolve outstanding uncertainties.

Indexed as

cirrhosisgenotypehepatitis B virus (HBV)hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)interferon alpha (IFN-α)liver fibrosisnucleosides

Identifiers

PMID38020195
PMCPMC10652982

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