Association of antiviral therapy with reduced disease progression in chronic Hepatitis B patients: Results from a nation-wide cohort study

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Hippokratia 2016, 20(3):214-221

Vourli G¹, Papatheodoridis G², Raptopoulou M³, Dalekos GN⁴, Hounta A⁵, Nikolopoulou G⁶, Zouboulis-Vafeiadis I⁷, Manesis E⁸, Kitis G⁹, Gogos C¹⁰, Ketikoglou I¹¹, Hatzis G¹², Vasilialdis T¹³, Karatapanis S¹⁴, Mimidis K¹⁵, Drakoulis C¹⁶, Touloumi G¹, The HEPNET-Greece study
¹Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Athens University Medical School, Athens, ²Department of Gastroenterology, Athens University Medical School, "Laiko" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, ³4^th Medical Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, ⁴Department of Medicine & Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, 4^th Department of Internal Medicine, General University Hospital "Attikon", Athens, ⁶Viral Hepatitis Committee, KEELPNO, Athens, ⁷First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, Athens University Medical School "Laiko" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, ⁸Division of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Athens, ⁹Gastroenterology Clinic, General Hospital "G. Papanikolaou", Thessaloniki, ¹⁰Department of Infectious Diseases, Patras University Hospital, Patras, ¹¹Department of Internal Medicine, "Hippocration" General Hospital, Athens, ¹²Department of Pathophysiology, University of Athens, Athens, ¹³3^rd Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "Papageorgiou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, ¹⁴Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, ¹⁵Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, ¹⁶2^nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia, Athens, Greece

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