Seropositivity for Anti-HCV Core Antigen is Independently Associated With Increased All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Liver Disease-Related Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients

BACKGROUND: It is not known whether chronic or past hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection contributes to the high mortality rate in hemodialysis patients. METHODS: This prospective study of 1077 adult hemodialysis patients without hepatitis B virus infection used Poisson regression analysis to estimate...

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Autores principales: Ohsawa, Masaki, Kato, Karen, Tanno, Kozo, Itai, Kazuyoshi, Fujishima, Yosuke, Okayama, Akira, Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury, Onoda, Toshiyuki, Suzuki, Kazuyuki, Nakamura, Motoyuki, Kawamura, Kazuko, Akiba, Takashi, Sakata, Kiyomi, Fujioka, Tomoaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22001541
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20100187

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