Effects of sex and generation on hepatitis B viral load in families with hepatocellular carcinoma

Figure 1 Flow chart depicting the collection and potential exclusion of subjects for our cohort and the stages of analysis.

Figure 2 Body height changes according to birth year for subjects of our cohort who underwent a general checkup (gray line) and hepatocellular carcinoma families (black line). The two horizontal lines indicate the female mean age at first marriage for each birth-year period. The mean age at first marriage before 1945 was ≤ 19 years and was 22 years in 1970.