Prevalence of hepatitis B and C markers among refugees in Athens

Roussos, Anastasios; Goritsas, Constantin; Pappas, Thomas; Spanaki, Maria; Papadaki, Panagiota; Ferti, Angeliki

doi:10.3748/wjg.v9.i5.993

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“…In our study, the prevalence of hepatitis B was most common in asylum seekers from the Balkans. Roussos et al found a similar result in their study on the prevalence of hepatitis B and C markers among refugees in Athens [25]. They screened 130 asylum seekers for hepatitis B and C and found a prevalence of anti-HBsAG of 15.4% in Balkan asylum seekers, a figure that is remarkably higher than in our study [25].…”

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Multimorbidity in Adult Asylum Seekers: A First Overview

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PrincipalsOver the last two decades, the total annual number of applications for asylum in the countries of the European Union has increased from 15,000 to more than 300,000 people. The aim of this study was to give a first overview on multimorbidity of adult asylum seekers.MethodsOur retrospective Swiss single center data analysis examined multimorbidity of adult asylums seekers admitted to our ED between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2012.ResultsA total of 3170 patients were eligible for the study; they were predominantly male (2392 male, 75.5% versus 778 female, 24.5). The median age of the patients was 28 years (range 28–82). The most common region of origin was Africa (1544, 48.7%), followed by the Middle East (736, 23.6%). 2144 (67.6%) of all patients were not multimorbid. A total of 1183 (37.7%) of our patients were multimorbid. The mean Charlson comorbidity index was 0.25 (SD 1.1, range 0–12). 634 (20%) of all patients sufferem from psychiatric diseases, followed by chronic medical conditions (12.6%, 399) and infectious diseases (4.7%, 150). Overall, 11% (349) of our patients presented as a direct consequence of prior violence. Patients from Sri Lanka/India most often suffered from addictions problems (50/240, 20.8%, p<0.0001). Infectious diseases were most frequent in patients from Africa (6.6%), followed by the Balkans and Eastern Europe/Russia (each 3.8%).ConclusionThe health care problems of asylum seekers are manifold. More than 60% of the study population assessed in our study did not suffer from more than one disease. Nevertheless a significant percentage of asylum seekers is multimorbid and exhibits underlying psychiatric, infectious or chronic medical conditions despite their young age.

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Multimorbidity in Adult Asylum Seekers: A First Overview

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“…In fact, immigrants were found to represent an important reservoir of newly diagnosed chronic HBV patients with their proportion in our chronic HBV patients increasing from the first to the second period of our study (from 30.5 to 39.7%, P = 0.046). The majority of these immigrants were from Albania, which is a country of high HBV endemicity [13][14][15]. However, the proportion of Albanians among immigrants with chronic HBV infection declined from the first to the second period of our study (from 82 to 64.5%, P = 0.027), while the relative proportion of immigrants from other countries (such as ex-USSR and Asian) increased.…”

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The burden and recent epidemiological changes of the main chronic liver diseases in a Greek referral tertiary centre

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Papatheodoridis²,

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et al. 2010

European Journal of Gastroenterology &Amp; Hepatology

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“…Historically, these patients have been attended to in the Unit of Tropical Medicine and International Health ''Drassanes'' located in the same district of the city. Global HBV infection in our sample reaches a value similar (18.11%) to that described in comparable patients in Sweden 17 but considerably lower than that reported in referral units of Spain 16,18 (44.8%-63.1%), Greece 19 (53.1%), and Italy 20 (38.9%). The underrepresentation of sub-Saharan African patients in this study may account for such differences.…”

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