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Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related complications are increasing among women, according to a national cohort study.
Typically, men have a higher risk of progression to liver disease than women because men develop liver disease from HCV at a higher rate than women.
“We found that women had increase of incidence of liver disease at a similar rate to men. Since the mortality rate was lower in women, this suggests that women will have a larger contribution to the overall burden of liver disease in future years,” lead author Jennifer R. Kramer, PhD, investigator with the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt) at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Department of Medicine in Houston, Texas, told Medical Economics.
The researchers published their results October 12, 2017 in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis.