Program and Abstracts from the Canadian Digestive Diseases Week 2016

Table 26

Meta-analysis of Liver Stiffness Progression Rates (LSPR) in Chronic HCV infection.

		Fixed Effect		Random Effects
		Meta-Analysis		Meta-Analysis
		LSPR (kPa/yr)	95% CI	LSPR (kPa/yr)	95% CI
All studies
Indirect	31	0.091	0.085–0.098	0.141	0.115–0.166	92%
Direct	8	0.099	0.067–0.131	0.137	0.069–0.205	47%
HCV monoinfected
Indirect	13	0.082	0.072–0.092	0.100	0.073–0.128	83%
Direct	3	0.083	0.049–0.116	0.085	0.040–0.129	27%
HIV/HCV coinfected
Indirect	16	0.097	0.088–0.105	0.167	0.127–0.208	94%
Direct	5	0.261	0.155–0.367	0.261	0.155–0.367	0%