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Abstract
Epidemiologic studies examining the association between hepatitis C virus and chronic kidney disease have yielded conflicting findings. Analyzing data from a Taiwanese cohort, Lai and colleagues report a novel finding that the odds of chronic kidney disease were nearly 3-fold higher in hepatitis C virus-infected persons with genotype 2 compared with genotype 1. Hepatitis C virus genotype distributions differ in regions around the world. Can genotypic differences in chronic kidney disease risk explain some of the heterogeneity in prior studies?Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28807261 PMCID: PMC5895479 DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2017.04.023
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Kidney Int ISSN: 0085-2538 Impact factor: 10.612