Mina Kabiri, MS; Alison B. Jazwinski, MD; Mark S. Roberts, MD; Andrew J. Schaefer, PhD; Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD
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Acknowledgment: The authors thank Elamin Elbasha, PhD, and Katherine Bornschlegel, MPH, for their constructive comments that improved the quality of the manuscript; John Grefenstette, PhD, for technical support on simulation runs; and Jill Delsigne, PhD, and Diane Hackett for editing the manuscript.
Financial Support: By the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (award KL2TR000146). Ms. Kabiri is supported by the Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M14-0095.
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol: Not applicable. Statistical code and data set: Available from Dr. Chhatwal (e-mail, jchhatwal@mdanderson.org).
Requests for Single Reprints: Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD, Department of Health Services Research, Unit 1444, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030; e-mail, JChhatwal@mdanderson.org.
Current Author Addresses: Ms. Kabiri and Dr. Roberts: Department of Health Policy and Management, 130 De Soto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
Dr. Jazwinski: Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Center for Liver Diseases, 3471 Fifth Avenue, 900 Kaufmann Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Dr. Schaefer: Department of Industrial Engineering, 1048 Benedum Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
Dr. Chhatwal: Department of Health Services Research, Unit 1444, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: M. Kabiri, A.B. Jazwinski, M.S. Roberts, J. Chhatwal.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: M. Kabiri, M.S. Roberts, A.J. Schaefer, J. Chhatwal.
Drafting of the article: M. Kabiri, A.B. Jazwinski, J. Chhatwal.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: M. Kabiri, A.B. Jazwinski, M.S. Roberts, A.J. Schaefer, J. Chhatwal.
Final approval of the article: M. Kabiri, A.B. Jazwinski, M.S. Roberts, A.J. Schaefer, J. Chhatwal.
Statistical expertise: M. Kabiri, J. Chhatwal.
Obtaining of funding: A.J. Schaefer, J. Chhatwal.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: M. Kabiri.
Collection and assembly of data: M. Kabiri.
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes a substantial health and economic burden in the United States. With the availability of direct-acting antiviral agents, recently approved therapies and those under development, and 1-time birth-cohort screening, the burden of this disease is expected to decrease.
To predict the effect of new therapies and screening on chronic HCV infection and associated disease outcomes.
Individual-level state-transition model.
Existing and anticipated therapies and screening for HCV infection in the United States.
Total HCV-infected population in the United States.
The number of cases of chronic HCV infection and outcomes of advanced-stage HCV infection.
The number of cases of chronic HCV infection decreased from 3.2 million in 2001 to 2.3 million in 2013. One-time birth-cohort screening beginning in 2013 is expected to identify 487 000 cases of HCV infection in the next 10 years. In contrast, 1-time universal screening could identify 933 700 cases. With the availability of highly effective therapies, HCV infection could become a rare disease in the next 22 years. Recently approved therapies for HCV infection and 1-time birth-cohort screening could prevent approximately 124 200 cases of decompensated cirrhosis, 78 800 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma, 126 500 liver-related deaths, and 9900 liver transplantations by 2050. Increasing the treatment capacity would further reduce the burden of HCV disease.
Institutionalized patients with HCV infection were excluded, and empirical data on the effectiveness of future therapies and on the future annual incidence and treatment capacity of HCV infection are lacking.
New therapies for HCV infection and widespread implementation of screening and treatment will play an important role in reducing the burden of HCV disease. More aggressive screening recommendations are needed to identify a large pool of infected patients.
National Institutes of Health.
Kabiri M, Jazwinski AB, Roberts MS, Schaefer AJ, Chhatwal J. The Changing Burden of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States: Model-Based Predictions. Ann Intern Med. ;161:170–180. doi: 10.7326/M14-0095
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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2014;161(3):170-180.
DOI: 10.7326/M14-0095
Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Infectious Disease, Liver Disease, Viral Hepatitis.
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