Persistence pays with tenofovir for Asian patients with high viral load

medwireNews: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) treatment results in viral suppression in Asian or Pacific Islander patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, even if they have a high viral load, an analysis shows.

It took longer for patients to achieve viral suppression (HBV DNA <400 copies/mL) if they had a high viral load, report Scott Fung (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and co-workers.

“However, delays in achieving virological suppression were not associated with adverse outcomes”, they write in Liver International.

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