Self-motivated medical care-seeking behaviors and disease progression in a community-based cohort of chronic hepatitis B virus-infected patients in China

Table 2 The active medical care-seeking behaviors and treatment situations among chronic HBV-infected persons, China, 2009–2014

Medical activities	Disease status	Sample Size	Treatment category
			No treatment		Symptomatic treatment or Chinese medicine		Antiviral treatment
			n	%	n	%	n	%
No clinical visit	Carriers	773	773	100	–	–	–	–
	CHB^a	361	361	100	–	–	–	–
	LC^b	12	12	100	–	–	–	–
	Sub-total	1146	1146	100
Active clinical visit	Carriers	408	289	70.8	30	7.4	89	21.8
	CHB	216	137	63.4	33	15.3	46	21.3
	LC	12	7	58.3	0	0.0	5	41.7
	HCC^c	2	0	0.0	2	100.0	0	0.0
	Sub-total	638	433	67.9	65	10.2	140	21.9
Total	Carriers	1181	1062	89.9	30	2.5	89	7.5
	CHB	577	498	86.3	33	5.7	46	8.0
	LC	24	19	79.2	0	0.0	5	20.8
	HCC	2	0	0.0	2	100.0	0	0.0
	Sub-total	1784	1579	88.5	65	3.6	140	7.8

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