Association of Plasma Levels of Vitamin D With Chronic Hepatitis B Infection

Soheil Tavakolpour; Shahnaz Sali; Latif Gachkar

doi:10.5812/hepatmon.35525

Association of Plasma Levels of Vitamin D With Chronic Hepatitis B Infection

authors:

Soheil Tavakolpour ¹ , Shahnaz Sali ^{1
, *} , Latif Gachkar ¹

1 Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

Hepatitis Monthly: Vol.16, issue 1; e35525

published online: January 16, 2016

article type: Letter

received: December 14, 2015

accepted: December 23, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5812/hepatmon.35525

how to cite: Tavakolpour S, Sali S, Gachkar L. Association of Plasma Levels of Vitamin D With Chronic Hepatitis B Infection. Hepat Mon. 2016;16(1):e35525. https://doi.org/10.5812/hepatmon.35525.

Keywords

Hepatitis B Virus Vitamin D Chronic HBV

Footnote

Authors’ Contribution:Study concept and design: Soheil Tavakolpour, Shahnaz Sali; acquisition of data: Soheil Tavakolpour, and Shahnaz Sali; analysis and interpretation of data: Soheil Tavakolpour, and Shahnaz Sali; drafting of the manuscript: Soheil Tavakolpour, Shahnaz Sali, and Latif Gachkar; critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Soheil Tavakolpour, Shahnaz Sali, and Latif Gachkar; study supervision: Soheil Tavakolpour, and Shahnaz Sali.

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