Open AccessThe Burden of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Growing: A Canadian Population-Based Study of Hospitalizations from 1994 to 2004
Author(s) -
Robert P. Myers,
MingFu Liu,
Abdel Aziz Shaheen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-7237
pISSN - 0835-7900
DOI - 10.1155/2008/173153
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis c virus , coinfection , hepatitis c , population , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pediatrics , virus , immunology , environmental health , sociology
Nearly 1% of Canadians are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Simulation analyses have suggested that HCV will place an increasing burden on the health care system as the infected population ages, but supportive clinical data are limited.
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