title: [Epidemiological trend of chronic hepatitis C].
abstract: Though patients with chronic hepatitis C after blood transfusion hepatitis decrease dramatically during the past decade, patients with it after non-transfused acute hepatitis C are still in existence. This means that new patients with chronic hepatitis C are on the decrease but not diminish. To the contrary, the number of patients with chronic hepatitis C is increasing. This depends on mainly dig up the undiscovered patients. These result in increasing the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kiyosawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ichijo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sodeyama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D005260:Female; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors