PMID: 15220690Jun 29, 2004Paper

Psychosocial factors are the most common contraindications for antiviral therapy at initial evaluation in veterans with chronic hepatitis C

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
P RowanH B El-Serag

Abstract

To understand the degree to which psychosocial factors were preventing veterans with chronic hepatitis C virus from being eligible for antiviral treatment. Nearly 2% of the US population is infected with hepatitis C. Antiviral treatment requires substantial adherence despite challenging side effects. Psychosocial factors, including depression and substance abuse, are clinically recognized contraindications for antiviral treatment. At the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center HCV Clinic, we prospectively gathered medical and psychosocial data, as well as treatment disposition data, for consecutively referred patients who had screened positive for hepatitis C by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay serology. Of the 697 patients referred from September 2000 to May 2001, 580 had chronic hepatitis C. The mean age was 51 years, and 99% were men. Psychosocial contraindications prevented hepatitis C antiviral treatment from being started for 406 (70.0%) patients. These contraindications included alcohol abuse (124, 21.4%), substance abuse (21, 3.6%), and depression (93, 16.0%). Among the medical contraindications were end-stage liver disease (34, 5.9%) and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (20, 3.4%). Overall, our experience was that ...Continue Reading

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