Author: Lv, Xiuâ€He; Yang, Jinâ€Lin; Deng, Kai
Title: Letter to the Editor: unanswered questions about hepatitis B virus infection in patients with COVIDâ€19 Cord-id: 0jib6v93 Document date: 2021_8_13
ID: 0jib6v93
Snippet: We read with great interest of the study written by Yip et al (1). The authors answered some previously unanswered questions about COVIDâ€19 patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and thus had clear clinical implications. We think some questions still need to be answered further on this topic. The primary endpoint of this study was allâ€cause mortality. Notably, the severity of disease in COVIDâ€19 patients was not discussed. The results of current studies on whether HBV infection in
Document: We read with great interest of the study written by Yip et al (1). The authors answered some previously unanswered questions about COVIDâ€19 patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and thus had clear clinical implications. We think some questions still need to be answered further on this topic. The primary endpoint of this study was allâ€cause mortality. Notably, the severity of disease in COVIDâ€19 patients was not discussed. The results of current studies on whether HBV infection increases disease severity in patients with COVIDâ€19 have been inconsistent, even in some studies with large samples from China (2,3).
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