Epidemiological characteristics and risk factors of biliary atresia: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Biliary atresia (BA) is regarded as a serious neonatal hepatobiliary disease, and its aetiology and pathogenesis remain unclear. Epidemiological studies are limited, especially for the data from China. This study aims to explore risk factors of BA and provide new evidence to improve understanding of its aetiology.

Design

This is a case-control study from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016.

Setting

Cases were consecutively recruited from an urban tertiary care academic children's hospital in Shanghai, China, while the controls were recruited from a community hospital in Shanghai through a random sampling system.

Participants

721 patients suspected for BA who planned to take the diagnostic surgery were enrolled preoperatively. 613 were diagnosed with B

SUBMITTER: Jiang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671910 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature