[Epidemiological trend of chronic hepatitis C].
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.
Kiyosawa
K
K
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine.
Ichijo
T
T
Tanaka
E
E
Sodeyama
T
T
Kobayashi
M
M
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