Determination of risk factors for hepatitis B and C in male patients suffering from chronic hepatitis

Qureshi, Huma; Arif, Ambreen; Riaz, Kashif; Alam, Shoaib; Ahmed, Waquaruddin; Mujeeb, Syed Abdul

doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-212

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“…This seroprevalence is significantly lower than that found by ZahraouiMahadji et al in Casablanca (5%) [2] and among barbers elsewhere [11,17]. Individuals giving or receiving traditional barber services have been shown to be at higher risk of HCV in most, but not all, settings [6,7,10,12,19]. In spite of the poor hygiene conditions in many barbershops in this study, we observed a near-universal practice of changing of blades between clients.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…However, adults are still at risk for both HBV and HCV. In particular, acquisition and transmission of bloodborne pathogens has been shown to be an occupational risk among traditional barbers in many countries [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. In Morocco, barbers are commonly exposed inadvertently to the blood and body fluids of their customers [13,14].…”

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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C among barbers and their clients in the Rabat region of Morocco

Belbacha

Cherkaoui²,

Akrim

et al. 2011

East Mediterr Health J

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A cross-sectional seroepidemiological study was conducted in the Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaër region of Morocco in 2007 among 267 barbers and 529 clients, all men with no history of hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination. The overall prevalence of HBV seropositivity was 28.1% in barbers and 25.1% in clients; 1.9% and 1.7% respectively had active HBV (HBsAg positive). Risk factors for HBV included older age, low educational level, urban living, being married, history of transfusion, lack of current heterosexual relationship and liver-associated symptoms. Observations showed that HBV seropositivity was lower in clean barbershops and those using alum as an antispetic. The rate of PCR-confirmed hepatitis C virus (HCV) was only 1.1% and 1.3% in barbers and clients respectively, and was associated with increased age, drug use, history of surgery and symptoms of liver disease. Less than 1% of barbers were aware of HBV or HCV as causative agents of liver disease or jaundice.

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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C among barbers and their clients in the Rabat region of Morocco

Belbacha

Cherkaoui²,

Akrim

et al. 2011

East Mediterr Health J

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“…Previous studies, mostly conducted in large urban centres, have shown that Pakistan is a high prevalence country [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] with 3-8% of the general population, and 2% of pregnant women being infected [6,8,11]. Major risk factors identified in Pakistan include the re-use of unsterile injection equipment (Pakistan has one of the highest global rates of use of therapeutic injections) [14] and other iatrogenic exposures such as unscreened blood transfusions [4,5,8,12].…”

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Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan: most infections remain unexplained. A cross-sectional study

Ahmed

Irving

Anwar³

et al. 2011

Epidemiol. Infect.

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We studied a cross-sectional sample of the population of Kech, a small rural town in Pakistan to determine the prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C infection. The prevalence of hepatitis C was 110 out of 2000 persons (5·5%, 95% confidence interval 4·5-6·5). Higher rates were identified in males. Independent risk factors identified were age ≥75 years, being a healthcare worker, and injecting drug use. There was a high prevalence of many potential routes of transmission of bloodborne viruses and most people reported at least one potential risk factor.

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“…Fewer respondents knew that infection is not transmitted by eating food that has been prepared by an Hepatitis patient (36%), nor by coughing (31%), and is more easily communicated to others as compared to AIDS (19%) 26 .Unlike the current Figure IV: Respondents 'Attitudes and behaviors toward infected individuals study explored that 75.57% and 74.19% of the respondents thought that hugging and shaking hand with an infected person cannot be the reason for the spread of infection. Precautionary strategies for HBV infection comprises of vaccination against HBV , healthy blood transfusion services, shaving by barbers needs to be dispirited and enhanced working out of healthcare workers 20 . In Pakistan due to lack of patient knowledge about sterile needles and greater demand for injection, is attributable to spread of Hepatitis 23 .…”

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Assessing the level of awareness and vaccination status of Hepatitis B among young female community of Pakistan

Shakeel

Iffat

Rehman

et al. 2015

Bangladesh J Med Sci

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Abstract:Objectives: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global health problem with about 2 billion infected persons. Pakistan is one of the endemic areas for viral hepatitis B. Prevention is merely a safe approach rather than curing against high incidence of viral hepatitis. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge and awareness of HBV infection, its prevention and transmission, perception of HBV vaccine and vaccination status among young females of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted from Oct till Dec 2014 by adopting a pre-validated questionnaire distributed to female individuals in Karachi, Pakistan. Descriptive statistics were used to demonstrate students' demographic information and their response to the questionnaire items. Kruskal Wallis H test was executed to evaluate the association of age and educational status of the respondents with their response. A p-value <0.05 was considered as significant. Results: Out of 550 survey questionnaires, only 434 were returned back in useable form. Hence the response rate was 78.9%. More than 90% had knowledge of HBV infection and 85.94% knew that HBV infection can be prevented by vaccination. However, only 17% had received HBV vaccination during childhood. 67.05% and 54.60% knew that HBV can be transmitted from mother to infant and an infected mother may transmit hepatitis B to her newborn baby through breast milk respectively. Only 24% had been tested for HBV in adulthood. General excuses for not having their HBV status tested, were lack of motivation (36.76%) and lack of time to check (21.54%). Conclusion: It indicates that majority of respondents showed some awareness of HBV and its related consequences. Yet, there are some misapprehensions regarding the attitudes that imitate a fallacy perception of the disease. It identifies a more standardized approach coupled with the well-structured health education programs pointing out such misconceptions.

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Determination of risk factors for hepatitis B and C in male patients suffering from chronic hepatitis

Abstract: Background: Hepatitis B and C is common in Pakistan and various risk factors are attributable to its spread.

Cited by 35 publications

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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C among barbers and their clients in the Rabat region of Morocco

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C among barbers and their clients in the Rabat region of Morocco

Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan: most infections remain unexplained. A cross-sectional study

Assessing the level of awareness and vaccination status of Hepatitis B among young female community of Pakistan

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