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Eighteen-year follow-up cohort study on hepatitis B and C virus infections related long-term prognosis among hemodialysis patients in Hiroshima.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Dec 2020
Ko Ko, Nagashima Shintaro, Yamamoto Chikako, Takahashi Kazuaki, Matsuo Junko, Ohisa Masayuki, Akita Tomoyuki, Matyakubov Jamshid, Mirzaev Ulugbek, Katayama Keiko, Masaki Takao, Tanaka Junko
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This study aimed to investigate the prevalence trend of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections and their genotype distribution among hemodialysis patients, determining their long-term prognosis and the risk factors to the mortality. This cohort study used both the medical data and the blood samples of hemodialysis patients at nine dialysis centers in Hiroshima from 1999 to 2017. Hepatitis...
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