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Table 6 Clinical data of included studies for the efficacy of SVR on all-cause and liver-specific mortality in patients with CHC

From: Impact of antiviral therapy on hepatocellular carcinoma and mortality in patients with chronic hepatitis C: systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Nationality

Age

Duration of follow up

Study format

Genotype

NOS

Treatment

Death/Total SVR

Death/No SVR

Histology

Yosida H et al. (2002) [47]

Japan

Tx: 49.5, control: 54.6 (mean)

mean 5.4 years

R

unknown

8

IFN-α or IFN-β

a7/817

a49/1613

F3,4: 32.2% in Tx, 31.6% in control, 26.3% in SVR, 35.2% in no SVR

Okanoue T et al. (2002) [53]

Japan

Tx: 50.4, control: 58.1 (mean)

Mean 5.6 years

R

unknown

7

IFN-α or lymphoblastoid

2/426 a0/426

47/994 a34/994

F3,4: 20.9% in SVR, 34.4% in control

Imazeki F et al. (2003) [48]

Japan

Tx: 49.2, control: 53.1 (mean)

mean 8.2 years

R

73.9% type 1

8

IFN-α or IFN-β

4/116 a1/116

29/239 a18/239

F3,4: 26.7% in Tx, 29.8% in control

Coverdale SA et al. (2004) [36]

Australia

Tx: 37, control: 38 (median)

median 9 years

P

39.6% type 1

7

IFN-α

a1/50

a35/334

Scheuer fibrosis score 2

Kasahara A et al. (2004) [17]

Japan

Tx: 53, control: 54 (median)

mean 6 years

R

unknown

8

IFN

7/738 a1/738

94/1930 a68/1930

F3,4: 38.7% in Tx, 48% in control, 28.6% in SVR, 43% in no SVR

Shiratori Y et al. (2005) [38]

Japan

Tx: 57, control: 61 (median)

median 6.8 years

P

71.9% type 1b

8

IFN-α or lymphoblastoid

1/64 a0/64

44/207 a32/207

unknown

Yu ML et al. (2006) [39]

Taiwan

Tx: 46.9, control: 43.6 (mean)

mean 5.18–5.15 years

R

46.2% type 1

8

IFN-α with or without RBV

4/715 a3/715

12/342 a11/342

LC 15.6% in Tx, 12.1% in control

Arase Y et al. (2007) [75]

Japan

SVR: 63, no SVR: 64 (mean)

mean 7.4 years

R

60.4% type 1b

8

IFN-α/β with or without RBV

9/140 a2/140

44/360 a32/360

F3,4: 14.5 in SVR, 27.5 in no SVR

Bruno S et al. (2007) [56]

Italy

54.7 (mean)

Mean 96.1 months

R

71.8% type 1

8

IFN-α

6/124 a2/120

114/759 a83/728

Child A LC

Veldt BJ et al. (2007) [58]

Europe and Canada

48 (median)

median 2.1 years

R

59% type 1

8

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

2/142 a1/142

24/337 a19/337

Ishak 4–6

Cardoso AC et al. (2010) [63]

France

55 (mean)

median 3.5 years

R

60% type 1

7

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

a3/103

a18/204

F3,4: 100%

Morgan TR et al. (2010) [64]

US

48.6–49.6 (mean)

median 79–96 months

P

87.2% type 1

8

PegIFN with or without RBV

a1/140

a23/386

F3,4: 100%

Innes HA et al. (2011) [76]

UK

41.8 (mean)

mean 5.3 years

R

35.6% type 1

8

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

13/560 a5/560

75/655 a50/655

85.8% no LC

Di Martino V et al. (2011) [41]

France

unknown

median 59 months

R

57.9% type 1

7

IFN with or without RBV, or PegIFN with RBV

0/59 a0/59

9/125 a5/125

55.5% F2 or greater

Velosa J et al. (2011) [65]

Portugal

51.7 (mean)

mean 6.4 years

R

61% type 1

7

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

a0/39

a15/91

compensated LC

Iacobellis A et al. (2011) [66]

Italy

59–62 (mean)

mean 51 months

P

57.3% type 1

7

PegIFN with RBV

a2/24

a23/51

decompensated LC

Backus LI et al. (2011) [69]

US

51–53 (mean)

median 3.8 years

R

72.1% type 1

6

PegIFN with RBV

525/7434

1440/9430

13% LC

Yamasaki K et al. (2012) [49]

Japan

60.9 (mean)

median 11.5 years

P

59.9% type 1b

7

IFN-α or β or lymphoblastoid with or without RBV

9/72 a1/72

16/80 a5/80

unknown

van der Meer AJ et al. (2012) [71]

Europe and Canada

48 (mean)

median 8.4 years

R

68% type 1

8

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

13/125 a3/125

100/405 a103/405

Ishak 4–6

Maruoka D et al. (2012) [43]

Japan

50.4–54 (mean)

mean 9.9 years

R

73.6% type 1

8

IFN-α/IFN-β with or without RBV

10/221 a2/221

74/356 a50/356

F3,4: 24.3% in Tx, F4: 43.1% in control

Cozen ML et al. (2013) [44]

US

50.98 (mean)

mean 10 years

R

68.7% type 1

8

IFN-α with or without RBV

6/69

25/90

F3,4: 19% (30.2% in Tx, 10.1% in control)

Alfaleh FZ et al. (2013) [72]

Saudi Arabia, Egypt

48 (mean)

mean 63.8 months

P

30.6% type 4

8

PegIFN with or without RBV

0/62 a0/62

4/95 a8/95

F3,4: 24.6% (27.1% in SVR, 31.1% in no SVR)

Aleman S et al. (2013) [45]

Sweden

51 (mean)

mean 5.3 years

R

50% type 1

8

PegIFN with RBV

11/110 a4/110

48/193 a35/193

LC

Singal AG et al. (2013) [77]

US

48 (median)

median 36–72 months

R

68.6% type 1

7

PegIFN with RBV

2/83

41/159

17.3% LC

Dieperink E et al. (2014) [78]

US

51.4 (mean)

median 7.5 years

R

70% type 1

8

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

19/222 a6/222

81/314 a56/314

F3,4: 54.5% (41.3% in SVR, 64.7% in no SVR)

Kutala BK et al. (2015) [50]

France

50 (median)

median 5.5 years

R

55.7% type 1

8

IFN/PegIFN with or without RBV

3/104

27/221

F3,4: 100%

Di Marco V et al. (2016) [73]

Italy

58 (mean)

median 7.6 years

P

83.4% type 1

8

PegIFN with RBV

a8/108

a98/336

compensated LC

  1. a: Liver-specific death, SVR sustained virologic response, CHC chronic hepatitis C, NOS Newcastle-Ottawa scale, Tx treatment group, R retrospective cohort study, P prospective cohort study, RCT randomized controlled study, IFN interferon, PegIFN pegylated interferon, RBV ribavirin, LC liver cirrhosis