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Viral Hepatitis

Predicting cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis C based on standard laboratory tests

Results of the HALT‐C cohort†

Lok, Anna S. F.*,1,‡; Ghany, Marc G.2; Goodman, Zachary D.3; Wright, Elizabeth C.4; Everson, Gregory T.5; Sterling, Richard K.6; Everhart, James E.7; Lindsay, Karen L.8; Bonkovsky, Herbert L.9; Di Bisceglie, Adrian M.10; Lee, William M.11; Morgan, Timothy R.12; Dienstag, Jules L.13,14; Morishima, Chihiro15,16

1Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI

2Liver Diseases Section, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD

3Division of Hepatic Pathology and the Veterans Administration Special Reference Laboratory for Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC

4New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA

5Section of Hepatology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO

6Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Hepatology Section, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA

7Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD

8Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

9Liver‐Biliary‐Pancreatic Center and the General Clinical Research Center, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

10Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

11Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

12Division of Gastroenterology, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA

13Gastrointestinal Unit (Medical Services), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

14Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

15Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

16Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Medical Center, 3912 Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109‐0362===

Received November 23, 2004

Accepted May 08, 2005