Annals Internal Medicine, Author Interviews, Hepatitis - Liver Disease / 04.03.2014
Hepatitis C: About 1% US Population Infected
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Scott D. Holmberg, MD, MPH
Chief, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch
Division of Viral Hepatitis.
MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings of the study?
Dr. Holmberg: Based on interview and testing of over 30, 000 National Health and Nutrition and Examination Survey (NHANES) participants from 2003 to 2010, 273 US residents or about 1%, are chronically (actively) infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). This translates to about 2.7 million chronic HCV-infected persons in the non-institutionalized population.
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