Establishment of Retrospective and Prospective Multicenter Cohort for Chronic Hepatitis B
- Conditions
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 500
Inclusion criteria
1. Subject aged 20 years or older
2. Subject who has been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B (HBs Ag (+) for minimum of 6 months)
3. Subject who is currently under clinical follow-up at the registered institution
4. Subject who has previously undergone or who can undergo liver fibroscan at the time of registration
5. Subject who has given informed consent to the enrollment
Exclusion criteria
1. Subject with decompensated liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma at the time of initial liver fibroscan
2. Subject who had previously undergone antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B
3. Subject who are concomittantly infected with HCV, HDV or HIV
4. Subject with chronic alcoholism defined as equal to or greater than 40g of alcohol for duration of 5 years or longer
5. Subject who has been diagnosed with right sided heart failure
6. Subjects whose liver fibroscan result is not valid
7. Subject who is considered ineligble by the researcher
8. Subject who is pregnant at the time of registration
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Development of liver-related events
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hepatocellular carcinoma