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Optimizing hepatitis B virus screening in the United States using a simple demographics-based model.

Ramrakhiani NS, Chen VL, Le M, Yeo YH, Barnett SD, Waljee AK, Zhu J, Nguyen MH. Optimizing hepatitis B virus screening in the United States using a simple demographics-based model. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2022 Feb 1; 75(2):430-437.

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Abstract:

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) affects > 290 million persons globally, and only 10% have been diagnosed, presenting a severe gap that must be addressed. We developed logistic regression (LR) and machine learning (ML; random forest) models to accurately identify patients with HBV, using only easily obtained demographic data from a population-based data set. APPROACH AND RESULTS: We identified participants with data on HBsAg, birth year, sex, race/ethnicity, and birthplace from 10 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2018) and divided them into two cohorts: training (cycles 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10; n  =  39,119) and validation (cycles 1, 4, 7, and 9; n  =  21,569). We then developed and tested our two models. The overall cohort was 49.2% male, 39.7% White, 23.2% Black, 29.6% Hispanic, and 7.5% Asian/other, with a median birth year of 1973. In multivariable logistic regression, the following factors were associated with HBV infection: birth year 1991 or after (adjusted OR [aOR], 0.28; p  <  0.001); male sex (aOR, 1.49; p  =  0.0080); Black and Asian/other versus White (aOR, 5.23 and 9.13; p  <  0.001 for both); and being USA-born (vs. foreign-born; aOR, 0.14; p  <  0.001). We found that the ML model consistently outperformed the LR model, with higher area under the receiver operating characteristic values (0.83 vs. 0.75 in validation cohort; p  <  0.001) and better differentiation of high- and low-risk persons. CONCLUSIONS: Our ML model provides a simple, targeted approach to HBV screening, using only easily obtained demographic data.





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