Late Presentation for Care Among Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C: Prevalence and Risk Factors

Patients with chronic hepatitis C may have advanced fibrosis at first evaluation. Using the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) definition (FibroScan® >9.5 kPa) for “late presenter for care” (LP), we found that 32% (169 of 527) of patients were LP. Being a LP was associated wit...

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Autores principales: Hansen, Janne Fuglsang, Hallager, Sofie, Øvrehus, Anne, Weis, Nina, Brehm Christensen, Peer, Pedersen, Court
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29367939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx257
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author Hansen, Janne Fuglsang
Hallager, Sofie
Øvrehus, Anne
Weis, Nina
Brehm Christensen, Peer
Pedersen, Court
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description Patients with chronic hepatitis C may have advanced fibrosis at first evaluation. Using the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) definition (FibroScan® >9.5 kPa) for “late presenter for care” (LP), we found that 32% (169 of 527) of patients were LP. Being a LP was associated with increasing age and a history of alcohol overuse.
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spelling pubmed-57745052018-01-24 Late Presentation for Care Among Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C: Prevalence and Risk Factors Hansen, Janne Fuglsang Hallager, Sofie Øvrehus, Anne Weis, Nina Brehm Christensen, Peer Pedersen, Court Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Patients with chronic hepatitis C may have advanced fibrosis at first evaluation. Using the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) definition (FibroScan® >9.5 kPa) for “late presenter for care” (LP), we found that 32% (169 of 527) of patients were LP. Being a LP was associated with increasing age and a history of alcohol overuse. Oxford University Press 2017-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5774505/ /pubmed/29367939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx257 Text en © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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