{"id":6163,"date":"2001-12-09T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2001-12-09T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2014-06-11T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:51:11","slug":"review-treatment-of-chronic-hepatitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/6163","title":{"rendered":"Review: treatment of chronic hepatitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul J Gow and David Mutimer, BMJ 2001;323 1164-1167<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Viral hepatitis is the major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. An estimated 300 million people are carriers of the hepatitis B virus, and 120 million are infected with hepatitis C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Untreated, these infections may progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, and hepatoma. Public health measures to limit new infection, including immunisation against hepatitis B and screening of blood products for HBV and HCV viruses, have now been implemented in most developed countries and are being implemented in many developing counties.<\/p>\n<p>This review focuses on the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C, which has undergone dramatic improvement in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/323\/7322\/1164\">http:\/\/bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/323\/7322\/1164<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul J Gow and David Mutimer, BMJ 2001;323 1164-1167 Viral hepatitis is the major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. An estimated 300 million people are carriers of the hepatitis B virus, and 120 million are infected with hepatitis C. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}