It remains a strong hypothesis that diabetic patients are at increased HCV infection risk, yet our findings in Greek diabetic patients were rather low. Further studies, possibly multicentre, are needed to estimate prevalence and address the question of whether a direct effect of HCV in diabetes development does actually exist.

Background: The continuous monitoring and future prediction of the growing epidemic of diabetes mellitus worldwide presuppose consistent information about the extent of the problem. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes and to identify associated risk factors in a sample of adult urban Greek population.

The present study showed that diabetic patients and especially females had increased in-hospital mortality compared with nondiabetic patients. Cerebrovascular disease and infections were the more common cause of death in both groups.

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Background: Out of 1705 patients hospitalised for various reasons in the 3 rd Internal Medicine