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Chronic HCV infection, diabetes and liver-related outcomes

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There is increasing interest in the role that diabetes has in liver-related outcomes in patients with chronic HCV. Elkrief and colleagues have furthered this discussion by indicating that diabetes may be considered a prognostic factor for major liver-related outcomes in patients with chronic HCV infection, including death and transplantation.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Diseases, Inova Fairfax Hospital, 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, 22042, VA, USA

    Linda Henry

  2. Betty and Guy Beatty Center for Integrated Research, Inova Health System, 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, 22042, VA, USA

    Zobair Younossi

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Henry, L., Younossi, Z. Chronic HCV infection, diabetes and liver-related outcomes. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 11, 520–521 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2014.122

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