Hepatitis B virus infection and development of chronic kidney disease: a cohort study

Autor: Yun Soo Hong, Seungho Ryu, Yoosoo Chang, Miguel Caínzos-Achirica, Min-Jung Kwon, Di Zhao, Tariq Shafi, Mariana Lazo, Roberto Pastor-Barriuso, Hocheol Shin, Juhee Cho, Eliseo Guallar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: BMC Nephrology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2369
DOI: 10.1186/s12882-018-1154-4
Popis: Abstract Background The effect of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection on the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is controversial. We examined the prospective association between hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) serology status and incident CKD in a large cohort of men and women. Methods Cohort study of 299,913 adults free of CKD at baseline who underwent health screening exams between January 2002 and December 2016 in South Korea. Incident CKD was defined as the development of an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
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