Hepatitis C virusrisk factorsHepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in adults is the leading cause of chronic disease and cirrhosis. Globally, an estimated 200 million persons are chronically infected with HCV and 3 to 4 million persons are newly infected each year. Improved sanitary and socioeconomic...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV)is an infection that causes inflammation of the liver. It spreads through contact with an infected person's blood or body fluids. The most common ways that you could acquire HCV infection are through injected drug use,unprotected sex, a medical procedure using contaminated...
This study was aimed at determining the seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Romania and the possible risk factors and modality of HCV transmission. A nationwide cross-sectional survey among the adult population was conducted between 2006-2008 in Romania through a population multicen...
HCV genotypes exhibit different profiles of pathogenicity, infectivity and response to antiviral therapy.Aims and objectives:The study was aimed at detecting HCV seropositivity, probable risk factors, HIV/HBV co infections and common genotype prevalence in a tertiary care hospital in South India...
Determine hepatitis C prevalence and risk factors in blood donors from the Blood Bank at the Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre ISSSTE, in Mexico City. A total of 41,957 blood donors were included in the study was done from January 1996 to August 2000. To study risk factors, a case...
p pBackground/p pHepatitis B and C is common in Pakistan and various risk factors are attributable to its spread./p pOne thousand and fifty consecutive male cases suffering from chronic liver disease (327 HBV and 723 HCV) were selected from the OPD of public sector hospital and a private ...
Neonatal assessment was carried out in the immediate postpartum period.Hepatitis C antibody was detected in 2.28% (N = 23) of the 1005 women in whom analysis was completed. Factors associated with seropositivity included intravenous (IV) drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis B ...
A prospective cohort study of the incidence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was performed in 2171 pregnant women in three rural Egyptian villages who were HCV antibody (anti-HCV) and RNA (HCV-RNA) negative at baseline. During an average of 2.2 years follow up, 25 in...
Risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma and its incidence after inter- feron treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Hepa- tology 1998; 27: 1394-402.Kasahara A, Hayashi N, Mochizuki K, Takayanagi M, Yoshioka K, Kakumu S et al. (1998). Risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma ...
Risk factors associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among prostitutes and their clients in the city of Santos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. J Med Virol 51: 338-343, 1997.Mesquita PE, Granato CF, Castelo A. Risk factors associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among ...