Global epidemiology and burden of HCV infection and HCV-related disease

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 122-132

  Thrift, Aaron P ^a   El Serag, Hashem B ^a,b   Kanwal, Fasiha ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHRONIC HEPATITIS C; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATTY LIVER; GENDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 1; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 3; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 4; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LICHEN PLANUS; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE EAST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85001610970     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2016.176     Document Type: Review

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