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Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Associated with the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Na...

Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Associated with the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Na...

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Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Associated with the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Taiwan

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Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Associated with the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Taiwan

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United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2014-11, Vol.9 (11), p.e113579-e113579

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English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

The association between chronic hepatitis virus infection and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains debatable. This nationwide population-based cohort study assessed the risk of RA among patients with a chronic infection of hepatitis B and/or C virus.
We used data extracted from the claims of 1,000,000 randomly sampled individuals covered under the...

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Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Associated with the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Taiwan

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1626822649

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1626822649

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0113579

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