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Alcohol consumption among patients with hepatitis B infection in northern Portugal considering gender and hepatitis B virus genotype differences.
Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) - 1 Mar 2010
Mota Ana, Guedes Fátima, Areias Jorge, Pinho Luciana, Cardoso Margarida Fonseca
Abstract excerpt
Alcohol abuse is an important public health problem. In Portugal with a population of 10 millions of inhabitants, there are around 10% of alcoholics or excessive alcohol drinkers and 1% of chronically infected patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV). To examine the characteristics of patients with higher levels of alcohol consumption and to investigate the association between alcohol consumption and liver damage a...
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