45-Year Follow-up of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Healthy Young Adults

  1. Leonard B. Seeff, MD;
  2. Richard N. Miller, MD;
  3. Charles S. Rabkin, MD;
  4. Zelma Buskell-Bales, BS;
  5. Kelle D. Straley-Eason, MPH;
  6. Bonnie L. Smoak, MD;
  7. Leslye D. Johnson, PhD;
  8. Stephen R. Lee, PhD; and
  9. Edward L. Kaplan, MD
  1. From the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Georgetown University School of Medicine, Institute of Medicine, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.; National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, New Jersey; and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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      Figure. Forty-five-year survival curve comparing 17 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive persons (solid line) with 8551 HCV-negative persons (dashed line).

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