Prevalence of hepatitis C in the adult Mexican population: National Survey of Health and Nutrition 2018

• Main Authors: Martha Carnalla (Author), Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez (Author), Dèsirée Vidaña-Perez (Author), Martín Romero-Martínez (Author), María Carolina Martínez-Bohorquez (Author), Eduardo González-Pier (Author), Reynerio Fagundo-Sierra (Author), David Kershenobich (Author), Celia Alpuche-Aranda (Author), Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce (Author), Teresa Shamah-Levy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Hepatitis C is a preventable and treatable disease that has been declared a public health problem. In 2012, the prevalence of HCV serum anti-bodies in the Mexican adult population aged 20 to 49 years was 0·30%. Methods: We randomly selected a probabilistic sub-sample of 12,389 a...