A review of the burden of hepatitis C virus infection in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
| Autor: | Heather Bennett, Young-Suk Lim, Nathalie Waser, Chien-Jen Chen, William Sievert, Youn-Jae Lee, Karissa Johnston, Hong Li, Lai Wei, Jia-Horng Kao, Zhongping Duan, Yong Yuan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
China
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Hepatitis C virus Population Taiwan Liver transplantation medicine.disease_cause Cost of Illness Japan Environmental health Republic of Korea Epidemiology Prevalence medicine Humans education education.field_of_study Hepatology business.industry Incidence Public health Incidence (epidemiology) medicine.disease Hepatitis C Virology digestive system diseases Hepatocellular carcinoma Coinfection business |
| Zdroj: | Hepatology International. 9:378-390 |
| ISSN: | 1936-0541 1936-0533 |
| Popis: | Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with substantial clinical and economic burden and is an important public health issue in Asia. The objective of this review was to characterize HCV epidemiology and related complications in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. A search of electronic databases and conference abstracts identified 71 potentially relevant articles. Of those, 55 were included in the epidemiology review and 9 in the review of HCV-related complications. HCV prevalence in the general population was 1.6% in China, 0.6-0.9% in Japan, 0.6-1.1% in South Korea and 1.8-5.5% in Taiwan. Prevalence was higher for injecting drug users (48-90%) and those with human immunodeficiency virus coinfection (32-85%) and was lower for blood donors ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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