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Estimations of worldwide prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection: a systematic review of data published between 1965 and 2013.

Aparna Schweitzer, +4 more
- 17 Oct 2015 - 
- Vol. 386, Iss: 10003, pp 1546-1555
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This first global assessment of country-level population prevalence of chronic HBV infection found a wide variation between countries and highlights the need for continued prevention and control strategies and the collection of reliable epidemiologic data using standardised methodology.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-10-17. It has received 2130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: HBsAg & Hepatitis B virus.

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The burden and epidemiology of hepatitis B and hepatitis D in Georgia: findings from the national seroprevalence survey.

A. Kasradze, +14 more
- 29 Jul 2020 - 
TL;DR: Georgia has an intermediate to high burden of hepatitis B, and the prevalence of HDV coinfection among HBV-infected persons is low, and existing infrastructure for hepatitis C elimination could be leveraged to promote hepatitis B elimination.
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Cost-effectiveness of birth-dose hepatitis B vaccination among refugee populations in the African region: a series of case studies

Joseph M. Reardon, +5 more
- 26 Feb 2019 - 
TL;DR: Addition of HepB BD vaccination is very cost-effective among three sub-Saharan refugee populations, using relative life-years saved, and shows the potential benefit of implementing Hep B BD vaccination among other camp-based refugee populations as more AFR countries introduce national hepatitis B BD policies.
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Prevalence of hepatitis B antiviral drug resistance variants in North American patients with chronic hepatitis B not receiving antiviral treatment.

Anna S. Lok, +6 more
- 01 Nov 2017 - 
TL;DR: The similar low prevalence of HBV‐DR variants in participants with and without NUC treatment suggests transmission of these variants is uncommon.
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Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus reactivation in cancer patients receiving novel anticancer therapies.

Kh. M. Mustafayev, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe the rate, characteristics, and outcomes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) reactivation in patients receiving novel systemic anticancer therapies.
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Immunologic markers and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis B virus- and hepatitis C virus-infected individuals

Jill Koshiol, +14 more
- 19 Jul 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, Wu et al. evaluated circulating immunologic markers and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk and found that increasing levels of ICAM-1 were associated with increased risk of HCC compared to non-cirrhotic and cirrhotic controls.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

David Moher, +4 more
- 21 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: Moher et al. as mentioned in this paper introduce PRISMA, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which is used in this paper.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement.

David Moher, +4 more
- 21 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: The QUOROM Statement (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) as mentioned in this paper was developed to address the suboptimal reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement

David Moher, +4 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: A structured summary is provided including, as applicable, background, objectives, data sources, study eligibility criteria, participants, interventions, study appraisal and synthesis methods, results, limitations, conclusions and implications of key findings.
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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohsen Naghavi, +731 more
- 10 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.
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