A single alcohol ingestion does not affect serum hepatitis C virus RNA in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Liver International

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1196-1200

  Manolakopoulos, Spilios ^a,c   Economou, Michalis ^a   Bethanis, Sotirios ^a   Mathou, Nicoletta ^b   Triantos, Christos ^a,b   Vlachogiannakos, Jiannis ^b   Vogiatzakis, Evangelos ^a   Avgerinos, Alec ^b   Tzourmakliotis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alcohol; HCV RNA; Hepatitis C

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; RNA ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 33750975057     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2006.01360.x     Document Type: Article

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