Hazardous drinking is associated with an elevated aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index in an urban HIV-infected clinical cohort.

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Published in HIV Med on December 20, 2008

Authors

A A Chaudhry1, M S Sulkowski, G Chander, R D Moore

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. amina.chaudhry@jhu.edu

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