Article
[Epidemiology of chronic hepatitis C in Germany--an analysis of 10,326 patients in hepatitis centres and outpatient units].
Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie - 1 Jan 2008
Hüppe D, Zehnter E, Mauss S, Böker K, Lutz T, Racky S, Schmidt W, Ullrich J, Sbrijer I, Heyne R, Schober A, John C, Hey K-H, Bokemeyer B, Kallinowski B, Möller B, Pape S, Gutmann M, Alshuth U, Niederau C
Abstract excerpt
Little is known about the epidemiology of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) in Germany and especially about the importance of transmission, duration of infection, genotypes, symptoms and quality of life of the patients. The current study prospectively evaluates epidemiological and clinical data of patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Using online data entry, various characteristics of 10,326 untreated...
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