Conventional and genetic risk factors for chronic Hepatitis B virus infection in a community-based study of 0.5 million Chinese adults

Conventional and genetic risk factors for chronic Hepatitis B virus infection in a community-based study of 0.5 million Chinese adults

Abstract Despite universal vaccination of newborns, the prevalence of chronic hepatitis virus B (HBV) infection and the associated disease burden remain high among adults in China. We investigated risk factors for chronic HBV infection in a community-based study of 512,726 individuals aged 30–79 yea...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Hamilton, Ling Yang, Alexander J. Mentzer, Yu Guo, Yiping Chen, Jun Lv, Robert Fletcher, Neil Wright, Kuang Lin, Robin Walters, Christiana Kartsonaki, Yingcai Yang, Sushila Burgess, Sam Sansome, Liming Li, Iona Y. Millwood, Zhengming Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16360-7

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16360-7

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