Hepatitis C Virus

HCV infection raises the risk for type 2 diabetes in predisposed individuals

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, July 28th, 2003

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - A prospective study of individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has shown that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection heightens the risk for the disease in people who are already predisposed to developing it.

In the case-cohort analysis, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland looked at diabetes onset among more than 1000 men and women between the ages of 44 and 65.

"Among 1084 adults free of diabetes at baseline, 548 developed diabetes over 9 years of follow-up evaluation," reported Shruti H. Mehta and colleagues in Hepatology.

Using common factors such as body...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2003-07-28)

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