Diabetes mellitus and viral hepatitis: the unsolved mystery
โ Scribed by D.H. Akbar
- Book ID
- 106194690
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0940-5429
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We read with great interest the articles by Lai et al. 1 and Veldt et al. 2 , which show an association between diabetes mellitus and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) for patients with chronic hepatitis C. Both of their results indicate that diabetes mellitus is not significantly associated with the d
The findings of Mason et al. 1 on diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C are similar to our own, reported at the 8th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2 In our study, diabetes was found in 34.7% and 2.7% of chronic hepatitis C and chronic hepatitis B patients, respective
While patients with liver disease are known to have a higher prevalence of glucose intolerance, preliminary studies suggest that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection may be an additional risk factor for the development of diabetes mellitus. To further study the correlation of HCV infection and diabetes