Hepatitis C Virus

Neuropsychological impairment is a risk in HIV- and HCV-infected women

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 19th, 2005

In a recently published article, scientists in the United States documented that neuropsychological impairment is a risk in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- and hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected women.

J.L. Richardson and colleagues, University of Southern California, wrote, "To evaluate the neurocognitive function in 220 women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a study of disease progression in women living with HIV/AIDS and in HIV-negative controls, we evaluated the prevalence of abnormal neuropsychological (NP) results in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive compared with HCV-negative women in combination with HIV serostatus."

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2005-12-19)

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