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Prevalence of Hepatitis c Virus Infection Among Rheumatological Patients

NCT03587714 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2018-07-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Egypt has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world. In 2015, the prevalence of HCV RNA was found to be 7.0%.(1) The prevalence of HCV was studied in Rheumatoid arthritis in few studies(2,3), but to our knowledge, no previous work studied it in other rheumatologic diseases.

Conditions

  • Hepatitis C

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

HCV RT-PCR

HCV ribonucleic acid by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assiut University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Manal Hassanien, MD · Assiut University

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-01
Primary Completion
2017-12-01
Completion
2018-03-01

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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