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Elevation of the glycated albumin to glycated hemoglobin ratio during the progression of hepatitis C virus related liver fibrosis
Nobuhiro Aizawa, Hirayuki Enomoto, Hiroyasu Imanishi, Masaki Saito, Yoshinori Iwata, Hironori Tanaka, Naoto Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Sakai, Tomoyuki Takashima, Takashi Iwai, Ei-ichiro Moriwaki, Soji Shimomura, Hiroko Iijima, Hideji Nakamura, Shuhei Nishiguchi, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan
Hideji Nakamura, Department of Gasteroenterology, Nissay Hospital, Osaka 550-0012, Japan
Author contributions: Aizawa N and Enomoto H contributed equally to this work; Enomoto H and Nakamura H designed and proposed the research; all authors approved the analysis and participated in drafting the article; Aizawa N, Enomoto H, Saito M, Iwata Y, Tanaka H, Ikeda N, Sakai Y, Takashima T, Iwai T, Moriwaki E, Shimomura S and Iijima H treated the patients, performed the liver biopsies and collected the clinical data; all authors were involved in the histological evaluation and the final histopathological results were confirmed by Enomoto H and Imanishi H; Aizawa N, Enomoto H and Nishiguchi S performed the statistical analysis; Enomoto H, Imanishi H and Nakamura H wrote the manuscript; all authors were involved in the manuscript revision and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Supported by A Grant-in-Aid for Health and Labor Sciences Research from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan
Correspondence to: Hirayuki Enomoto, MD, PhD, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan. enomoto@hyo-med.ac.jp
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Received: March 31, 2011
Revised: September 19, 2011
Accepted: January 15, 2012
Published online: January 27, 2012
Revised: September 19, 2011
Accepted: January 15, 2012
Published online: January 27, 2012
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