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ReviewDigestive diseases and sciences2019

New Face of Hepatitis C.

Tiffany Wu, Peter G Konyn, Austin W Cattaneo, Sammy Saab

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Review in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Trends in candidate hepatitis C virus nucleic acid amplification test (NAT)+ listing and associated impacts on liver transplantation waitlist outcomes.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025
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  6. Relationship between Insurance Type at Diagnosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Survival.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tiffany WuDepartment of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Peter G KonynDepartment of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Austin W CattaneoDepartment of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Sammy SaabDepartment of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. SSaab@mednet.ucla.edu.
University of California, Los Angeles · USCedars-Sinai Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection continues to carry a high burden of disease despite recent and emerging advancements in treatment. The persistently high prevalence of HCV is attributed to the rising opioid epidemic, with a history of injection drug use as the primary risk factor for infection. As a result, the epidemiology of HCV-infected individuals is changing. Previously a disease of "Baby Boomers," males, and non-Hispanic blacks, the new generation of patients with HCV includes younger adults from 20 to 39 years of age, both men and women similarly represented, and non-Hispanic whites. Shifting trends in these demographics may be attributed to the use of injection drugs, which also has suggested impact on fibrosis progression in infected individuals. Awareness of the changing face of HCV is necessary to expand and revise recommendations regarding screening, outreach, and care engagement of infected individuals, in order to best identify patients at-risk for infection.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAge DistributionFemaleHepatitis C, ChronicHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedOpioid-Related DisordersPrevalencePrognosisRacial GroupsRisk FactorsSex DistributionDiagnosisEpidemiologyHepatitis CRisk factors

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PMID30756208
OpenAlexW2914095768

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Registered trials

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