Chronic virus C hepatitis records high prevalence, almost 170 million people worldwide being infected. Systemic involvement is frequent and the implication of the osteoarticular system raises various problems in properly diagnosing and treating it. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most frequent type of inflammatory polyarthritis, with a prevalence of 0.8% in the general population. The rheumatoid fa...

introduction: the transmission chance of blood transmitted infections in heart patients underlying surgery and interventional measures due to repeated examinations and transfusions is to be taken into consideration. the important causes of chronic and deadly diseases in patients and healthcare workers are hepatitis c, hiv and hepatitis b infections that have recently attracted the attention of ...

Introduction: Hepatitis B and C are major health problems in many countries, especially developing areas. The frequency of hepatitis B is less than 0.8%, and chronic hepatitis C is less than 0.5% in the general population of Yazd in the center of Iran. Large vehicle drivers have some risk factors for acquiring hepatitis B and C infection. This is important because viral hepatitis complications,...

background: creating autoantibodies against thyroid in hepatitis c patients who are being treated with interferon is now recognized for several years. recently, some studies have claimed that prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disorders in hepatitis c patients is higher when they are not treated by interferon and/or at the beginning of diagnosis, however the area still remained controversial. in ...

BACKGROUND The global epidemic of hepatitis B and hepatitis C is a serious publichealth problem. Chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C are among the leading causes of preventable death worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to two billion people in the world have been infected with HBV; about 350 million people live with chronic HBV infection, and about 600,000 people die fr...

Despite decreasing prevalence, new cases of hepatitis C in China are increasing recently with growing percentage of patients who are with advanced disease, aging, or not eligible for interferon-based treatments. Hepatitis C infection represents a serious public health burden. This review was based on expert's consensus during a medical forum on hepatitis sponsored by the Beijing Wu Jie-Ping Med...

Antibodies to hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B serology and liver enzymes were examined in 137 Finnish haemophiliac patients to detect signs of chronic viral hepatitis and its possible aetiological associations. The prevalence of raised alanine aminotransferase values was 37%. These were significantly associated with hepatitis C seropositivity but not with hepatitis B antibodies, severity of haem...

In a cohort of subjects from Italy, anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HCV RNA [HCV(+) subgroup] prevalences were 24.6 and 79.6%, respectively. HCV types 1b and 2a/c accounted for 95% of infections. Adjusted alanine aminotransferase levels were higher in males than in females and in RNA-positive subjects than in RNA-negative subjects regardless of HCV type. Genotype distribution was unrelated to ...