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Incidence of hepatitis C virus infection in patients with chronic kidney disease on conservative therapy

Author(s) -

Gioacchino Li Cavoli,

Angelo Ferrantelli,

Luisa Bono,

Calogera Tortorici,

Carlo Giammarresi,

Carmela Zagarrigo,

Onofrio Schillaci,

Angelo Tralongo,

Maurizio Soresi,

Ugo Rotolo

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2011.04.001

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , epidemiology , dialysis , kidney disease , population , hepatitis c virus , hepatitis c , disease , immunology , virus , environmental health , physics , optics

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a never-ending public health problem. Many studies have investigated the incidence of HCV infection among dialysis patients, but there have only been a few epidemiological studies in renal conservative therapy. We studied 320 subjects with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease living in Sicily, Italy. The incidence of HCV infection was 6.25%. In Europe, incidence ranges from 0.2% to 3.5%. It appears that the incidence of HCV infection is higher in the studied patient population than in the population as a whole.

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