The portrait of an adult liver transplant recipient in the United States from 1987 to 2013

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1407-1409

  Stepanova, Maria ^a   Wai, Homan ^a   Saab, Sammy ^b   Mishra, Alita ^c   Venkatesan, Chapy ^c   Younossi, Zobair M ^c  

^a INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905842828     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.2903     Document Type: Letter

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