Global Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus

By B. Custer, S. Sullivan, T. K. Hazlet, U. Iloeje, D. Veenstra, Kris V. Kowdley. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2004

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Hepatology

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• The contributions of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections to cirrhosis and primary liver cancer worldwide. (2006, background): “These variations tended to reflect known patterns of HBV and HCV infection endemicity [99,100].”
• The global health burden of infection‐associated cancers in the year 2002 (2006, background): “WHO produces country specific estimates and somewhat more recent data have been compiled by Custer et al.41 from which the average prevalence by world area has been estimated (Fig.”
• iArc monogrAphs on the evAluAtion oF cArcinogenic risks to humAns (2012, background): “The prevalence of chronic HBV infection is lowest in North America, Northern and Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand; intermediate in Japan, the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Europe and parts of South America; and highest in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin, the People’s Republic of Ch”