Role of Non-hepatic Medical Comorbidity and Functional Limitations in Predicting Mortality in Patients with HCV

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• 作者：Yamini Natarajan ; Donna L. White ; Hashem B. El-Serag…
• 关键词：Epidemiology ; Hepatology ; Hepatitis C ; Comorbidity ; Prognosis ; Natural history ; Mortality
• 刊名：Digestive Diseases and Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：62
• 期：1
• 页码：76-83
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Gastroenterology; Hepatology; Oncology; Transplant Surgery; Biochemistry, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-2568
• 卷排序：62

文摘

BackgroundMedical comorbidities and functional status limitations are determinants of mortality in many chronic diseases. The extent to which survival in the rapidly aging cohort of patients with HCV is affected by these competing causes of mortality remains unclear.