Socio-demographic and clinical features of Irish iatrogenic hepatitis C patients a cross-sectional survey 英文参考文献.docVIP

BMC Public Health BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Socio-demographic and clinical features of Irish iatrogenic hepatitis C patients: a cross-sectional survey Olivia McKenna*?1,2, Caitriona Cunningham1 and Catherine Blake?1 Address: 1UCD School of Physiotherapy and Performance Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland and 2Department of Physiotherapy, Mid-Western Regional Hospitals, Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland Email: Olivia McKenna* - olivia.mckenna@hse.ie; Caitriona Cunningham - caitriona.g.cunningham@ucd.ie; Catherine Blake - c.blake@ucd.ie * Corresponding author ?Equal contributors Published: 7 September 2009 Received: 2 February 2009 Accepted: 7 September 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:323 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-323 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/323 ? 2009 McKenna et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: A discrete sub-group of iatrogenically-acquired hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected individuals exists in the Irish population on whom limited current research data is available. The aim of this study was to establish a current profile of the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the Irish iatrogenic hepatitis C population and to determine factors predicting symptoms experienced. Methods: An anonymous, national, cross-sectional survey was conducted to explore this populations self-reported health and social attributes. Data were collected on 290 respondents. Results: Mean time since infection was 26 years. Eighty-four percent (n = 237) of respondents were female (mean age = 55.9 ± 9.6 years). Hepatic and extra-hepatic symptoms were common (62% and 99% respectively).