Estimating past hepatitis C infection risk from reported risk factor histories: implications for imputing age of infection and modeling fibrosis progression

BACKGROUND: Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is prevalent and often causes hepatic fibrosis, which can progress to cirrhosis and cause liver cancer or liver failure. Study of fibrosis progression often relies on imputing the time of infection, often as the reported age of first injection drug use...

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Autores principales: Bacchetti, Peter, Tien, Phyllis C, Seaberg, Eric C, O'Brien, Thomas R, Augenbraun, Michael H, Kral, Alex H, Busch, Michael P, Edlin, Brian R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2238758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18070362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-145

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