{"id":4360,"date":"2020-06-12T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdafound.org\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2021-07-13T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:07:36","slug":"global-epidemiology-of-viral-hepatitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/global-epidemiology-of-viral-hepatitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdafound.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gastroenterology-Clinics-of-North-America_75x100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gastroenterology-Clinics-of-North-America_75x100.png 75w, https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gastroenterology-Clinics-of-North-America_75x100-9x12.png 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32389357\/\">Razavi H. Global Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis. Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2020 Jun;49(2):179-189. doi: 10.1016\/j.gtc.2020.01.001. PMID: 32389357.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) is the leading cause of inflammation of liver tissue (hepatitis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease burden associated with hepatitis A and E occurs shortly after infection, and it is more severe among adults. With hepatitis A and E, the number of incident cases (new acute infections) is important from a public health perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long-term hepatitis can cause cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in patients. The disease burden associated with hepatitis B, C, and D appears 10 to 20 years after infection. Thus, the prevalence of these infections is important from a public health perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were an estimated 3.4 (0.5\u20136.5) million symptomatic hepatitis A cases in 2005, 292 (251\u2013341) million chronic hepatitis B in 2016, 71.1 (62.5\u201379.4) million chronic hepatitis C in 2015, 23.9 (10.4\u201327.6) million chronic hepatitis D in 2016, and 69,622 (12,400\u2013132,732) new cases of hepatitis E in 2005.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual deaths associated with viral hepatitis infections are 35,245 for hepatitis A in 2005, 884,000 for hepatitis B in 2015, 400,000 for hepatitis C in 2015, and 69,622 for hepatitis E in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Razavi H. Global Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis. Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2020 Jun;49(2):179-189. doi: 10.1016\/j.gtc.2020.01.001. PMID: 32389357. Summary Viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) is the leading cause of inflammation of liver tissue (hepatitis). The disease burden associated with hepatitis A and E occurs shortly after infection, and it is more severe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,21,10],"publication-author":[],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication","tag-global","tag-hbv","tag-hcv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"publication-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnc-test.myddns.me\/cda-foundation\/cdafound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-author?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}