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Pei-Jer Chen

Researcher at National Taiwan University

Publications -  771
Citations -  45879

Pei-Jer Chen is an academic researcher from National Taiwan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis B virus & Hepatitis B. The author has an hindex of 99, co-authored 732 publications receiving 41018 citations. Previous affiliations of Pei-Jer Chen include Academia Sinica & Taipei Medical University.

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Hepatitis B e antigen and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma.

TL;DR: Positivity for HBeAg is associated with an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, and after adjustment for age, sex, the presence or absence of antibodies against hepatitis C virus, cigarette-smoking status, and use or nonuse of alcohol, the relative risk was 9.6%.
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Hepatitis B genotypes correlate with clinical outcomes in patients with chronic hepatitis B

TL;DR: The data suggest that HBV genotype C is associated with more severe liver disease and genotype B may be associated with the development of HCC in young Taiwanese, and additional large-scale longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the relationship ofHBV genotypes to liver disease severity and clinical outcomes.