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Association between hepatitis C virus and chronic kidney disease: heterogeneity begets heterogeneity.
Kidney international - 1 Sept 2017
Lucas Gregory M
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiologic studies examining the association between hepatitis C virus and chronic kidney disease have yielded conflicting findings. Analyzing data from a Taiwanese cohort, Lai and colleagues report a novel finding that the odds of chronic kidney disease were nearly 3-fold higher in hepatitis C virus-infected persons with genotype 2 compared with genotype 1. Hepatitis C virus genotype distributions differ in...
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