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Epidemiology and risk factors of HCV infection among hemodialysis patients in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of WHO (EMRO): a quantitative review of literature.

Background: Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is the major co-morbidity of patients on chronic hemodialysis. There are many scattered and heterogeneous data about this infection in hemodialysis patients living in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region Office of WHO (EMRO) and its distribution...

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Published in:Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 191 - 204
Main Authors: Alavian, Seyed-Moayed, Tabatabaei, Seyed-Vahid, Mahboobi, Nastaran
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2011
Subjects:
Middle East
Epidemiology
Hepatitis C risk factors
Chi-squared test
Confidence intervals
Hemodialysis
Hepatitis C
MEDLINE
Meta-analysis
Research
Systematic reviews
Evidence-based medicine
Data analysis
Seroprevalence
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