Liver Disease

Hepatitis C virus carriers need access to quality, continuous care

Published in Health and Medicine Week, March 29th, 2004

Hepatitis C virus carriers need access to quality, continuous care.

According to a study from Japan, "in 1990, we conducted an epidemiological study of 509 residents in a hepatitis C virus (HCV) hyperendemic area in Japan. The purpose of the present study was to examine the approach to therapy for liver diseases accompanied by HCV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections among the surviving residents in the town after 12 years. Fifty-three with HCV or HBV infections among 385 people who resided in the town were clearly analyzed in 2002."

"The number of persons diagnosed with the liver diseases was as follows: HCV-related asymptomatic healthy carrier...

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