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Health-related quality of life in Egyptian patients with chronic hepatitis C before and after treatment with direct acting antivirals

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Internal Medicine

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Background: According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, the prevalence of HCV in Egypt is 4.5% to 6.7%, which is the uppermost prevalence of HCV in the world causing a substantial burden of mortality and morbidity. Health related quality of life [HRQoL] has been assessed in diabetes, arthritis and a wide variety of cancers, Until now, there is no sufficient report about HRQoL related to direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs )on Egyptian patients with chronic HCV. This prospective cohort study aimed to assess the health related quality of life in Egyptian patients with chronic HCV treated with daclatasvir (DAC) and sofosbuvir(SOF) ± ribavirin (RBV). Methods: One hundred HCV patients were classified according to the supreme council and national committee for control of HCV (NCCVH) into two groups: Group 1 (easy to treat) included 35 patients treated with SOF+DAC for 12 weeks, and group 2 (difficult to treat) included 65 patients treated with SOF+DAC+RBV for 12 weeks. The short form 36 scale (SF-36) was used to assess the health related quality of life in two groups. Results: Sustained virological response (SVR12) in patient received DAC/SOF was 83.3 % and in patient received DAC/SOF/RBV was 100% (Total 93%). The patients reported significant improvement in all HRQoL domains after therapy, group1reported higher improvement. Conclusion: Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir with or without ribavirin are effective in treatment of chronic HCV infections with low adverse actions and better improvement in HRQoL. Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir have better improvement in HRQoL than Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir plus ribavirin.

DOI

10.21608/zumj.2019.13982.1278

Keywords

HCV, Daclatasvir, Sofosbuvir, Health related quality of life, SF-36 scale

Authors

First Name

asmaa

Last Name

nosair

MiddleName

haroun

Affiliation

post graduate in Internal Medicine department, Zagazig University.

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asmaa_nosair@yahoo.com

City

damietta

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First Name

waleed

Last Name

ismail

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Affiliation

internal medicine department,faculty of medicine, zagazig university

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waleed.fattah@yahoo.com

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First Name

Emad

Last Name

Hamed

MiddleName

F

Affiliation

Internal Medicine department, Faculty of medicine,Zagazig university, Egypt

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emad_991970@yahoo.com

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-

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First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

Community and public health department faculty of medicine. Zagazig university

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gadamaged2@gmail.com

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Zagazig

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Volume

26

Article Issue

5

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16689

Issue Date

2020-09-01

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2019-07-07

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2020-09-01

Page Start

877

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882

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1110-1431

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2357-0717

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273

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Zagazig University Medical Journal

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22 Jan 2023