Prevalence of chronic liver disease in the general population of northern Italy: The dionysos study

Hepatology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1442-1449

  Bellentani, Stefano ^b   Tiribelli, Claudio ^a   Saccoccio, Gioconda ^a   Sodde, Marino ^a   Fratti, Nicoletta ^a   De Martin, Christina ^a   Christianini, Giovanni ^c  

^a Centro Studi Fegato ^*  (Italy)

^b Rehabilitation Medicine Unit   (Italy)

^c Unità Sanitaria Locale ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0027999941     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840200611     Document Type: Article

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