Histological versus clinical cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C: Does race/ethnicity really matter?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 771-776

  Kohla, Mohamed ^a   Iwata, Shunpei ^a   Ea, Roth ^a   Keyhan, Sanaz ^a   Taylor, Robert ^a   Yu, Mimi C ^b   Groshen, Susan ^c   Bonacini, Maurizio ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Ethnicity; Fibrosis; HCV; Hepatocellular cancer; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HISPANIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METAVIR FIBROSIS SCORE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENOMEGALY; STUDENT T TEST; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859484389     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1908-3     Document Type: Article

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