Racial disparity in chronic hepatitis B infection in a predominately African American urban clinic population

African Americans (AA) are 4 times as likely as Caucasians to have chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) and yet are under represented in the literature especially with respect to treatment response. The objective of this study was to compare demographics, treatment decisions and outcomes of AA to Non-AA patien...

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Main Authors: Eugene Verkhovsky, Paul Naylor, Sindhuri Benjaram, Shanker Das Kundumadam, Murray Ehrinpreis, Milton Mutchnick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences 2018-12-01
Series:AIMS Medical Science
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Online Access:http://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/medsci.2018.4.378/fulltext.html