OBJECTIVE Chronic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis C are considered as the most important infectious diseases, which lead to drastic consequences such as liver dysfunction. Depression is a psychiatric disorder which is concomitantly present in these patients, and decreases the patients' quality of life. It may lead to suicide, homicide or intentional transmission of infectious to others. ...

prevalence of chronic hepatitis c virus infection in adult multitransfused thalassemic patients in iran

Background: There are little data on the prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses in pregnant women in Meerut. Objectives: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among pregnant women. Material and Methods: Blood samples of 5042 pregnant women were collected. Result and Discussion: overall prevalence, 162(3.21...

Diverse Indian population provides an excellent opportunity to study the prevalence and feature of hepatitis virus for understanding viral evaluation and viral pathogenesis. India is in intermediate zone of pathogenesis of hepatitis B (2-5%), and India is having around 40 million hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers. A wide variation in prevalence of hepatitis B is observed from region to region an...

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...

conclusions one in five patients undergoing maintenance dialysis in hamadan is seropositive for hepatitis e immunoglobulin g antibody. future studies are needed to investigate the factors contributing to the observed high prevalence rate and the possibility of parenteral transmission of hepatitis e. results thirty patients (19.2%), were seropositive. seropositive patients were not significantly...

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 ...

 ABSTRACT Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in patients who lack detectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is called occult hepatitis B infection. Such infections have been frequently identified in patients with chronic hepatitis Cliver disease, but their prevalence is not known. Methods: 207 patients with chronic hepatitis C who were HCV -RNA and antiHCV positive were stu...