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Aboriginal Taiwanese hepatitis B carriers have more favorable viral factors than Han Chinese carriers.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2011
Nien Hsiao-Ching, Sheu Jin-Chuan, Kao Jia-Horng, Chou Huei-Chi, Su Chien-Wen, Chen Chien-Hung
Abstract excerpt
Several viral factors are associated with disease progression in hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers. Compared with Taiwanese Han Chinese, Taiwanese aborigines have a higher prevalence of chronic HBV infection and a higher standardized mortality rate of chronic liver diseases but a lower standardized mortality rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate whether aboriginal...
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