Factors associated with severity and disease progression in chronic hepatitis C.

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Factors associated with severity and disease progression in chronic hepatitis C.

Hepato-gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2000

Tassopoulos N C, Papatheodoridis G V, Katsoulidou A, Delladetsima J K, Sypsa V, Touloumi G, Nikandros M, Hatzakis A

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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Chronic hepatitis C appears to have a highly variable natural course with 20% of patients developing cirrhosis within 20 years, while the majority of them run a relatively mild course. We studied the relationships of epidemiological, biochemical and virological features with hist...

Topics

Adult
Disease Progression
Female
Genotype
Hepacivirus
Hepatitis C, Chronic
Humans
Liver
Liver Cirrhosis
Male
Middle Aged
RNA, Viral

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