Hepatitis C infection and diabetes
โ Scribed by Hiroshi Noto; Philip Raskin
- Book ID
- 113699637
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 352 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1056-8727
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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