Factors predisposing to the occurrence of cryoglobulinemia in two cohorts of Egyptian and Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis C infection: ethnic and genotypic influence.

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The association between cryoglobulinemia and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been reported. However, the factors underlying its wide variation of occurrence have not yet been well identified. To investigate this, cryoglobulinemia was studied in four cohorts of Egyptian and Japanese patients. Fifty Egyptian patients with chronic hepatitis C, infected with genotype 4 (the predominant HCV genotype in Egypt),...

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