| a case-control study on male hepatocellular carcinoma based on hospital and community controls. | a case control study on male primary hepatocellular carcinoma(hcc) and hepatitis b or c virus and some potential risk factors, e.g. blood transfusion, aldehyde dehydrogenase 2(aldh2) genotype and drinking habits, was performed using two controls, i.e. a hospital control(hc) and a community control(cc) in fukuoka and saga prefectures. cases were obtained from the second department of internal medicine, kurume university hospital. the hcs were obtained from inpatients of two general hospitals in k ... | 1998 | 9575688 |
| sero-epidemiologic study of hepatitis c virus infection in fukuoka, japan. | we conducted an epidemiological study of 509 residents of h town, fukuoka, japan, to investigate the high mortality rate from liver disease. antibodies to hepatitis c virus (hcv) (anti-hcv) were detected in 120 residents (23.6%); hcv rna in 91 (17.9%), and hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) in 13 (2.6%). multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that presence of anti-hcv, male gender, and history of liver disease were associated with the presence of liver dysfunction, and that age of mor ... | 1998 | 9605952 |
| [blood-borne viral infection in hemodialysis units: special reference to hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus and human t-lymphotropic virus type 1]. | hemodialysis patients are one of the high risk groups for blood-borne viral infection due to their need of blood transfusions for renal anemia. in addition, the hemodialysis procedure itself is a risk factor for blood-borne viral infection. therefore, prevention of blood-borne infection in hemodialysis units is highly important. i would like to introduce our previous studies on hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus and human t-lymphotropic virus type 1 infection in hemodialysis units in fukuoka, ... | 1998 | 9893464 |
| heterosexual transmission of gb virus c/hepatitis g virus infection to non-intravenous drug-using female prostitutes in fukuoka, japan. | to determine if gb virus c (gbv-c) or hepatitis g (hgv) infection can be transmitted by heterosexual intercourse, we tested serum samples from 234 non-drug-injecting female prostitutes for gbv-c/hgv. we used reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction to test for gbv-c/hgv rna and elisa for gbv-c/hgv-e2 antibody. the prevalence of total gbv-c/hgv marker (gbv-c/hgv rna and/or gbv-c/hgv-e2 antibody) was 58/234 (24.8%) in the prostitutes, and 7/71 (8.9%) in matched controls. the gbv-c/hgv rna a ... | 1999 | 10548339 |
| prevalence of seropositivity for hepatitis c virus in cataract patients and the general population. | to investigate the epidemiologic relationship between hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection and cataract. | 2002 | 12388029 |
| long term survey of hepatitis c virus infection in hemodialysis units in fukuoka, japan. | to examine prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection and liver dysfunction in hemodialysis units, we surveyed markers for hcv infection and serum alanine aminotransferase (alt) in hemodialysis patients. 204 hemodialysis patients (111 men and 93 women; mean age, 53 +/- 12 years) in four hemodialysis units in fukuoka, japan were investigated. all serum samples were tested for antibody to hcv (anti-hcv) by second-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (elisa). hcv rna was detected to id ... | 1996 | 9002381 |
| prevalence of hepatitis c virus infection among female prostitutes in fukuoka, japan. | to assess the risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis c virus (hcv), we surveyed female prostitutes to determine the prevalence of antibody to hcv (anti-hcv) and hcv rna. anti-hcv was examined with a second generation anti-hcv test employing a passive hemagglutination assay. hcv rna was detected by two-stage polymerase chain reaction with primers deduced from the 5'-noncoding region of the hcv genome. all studies were performed in fukuoka, japan, from 1989 through 1992 and all subjects were jap ... | 1996 | 8887032 |
| a hospital-based case-control study on hepatocellular carcinoma in fukuoka and saga prefectures, northern kyushu, japan. | three hundred and sixty-eight case-control sets (male 287 pairs; female 81 sets) were collected for a hospital-based case-control study of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) conducted in northern kyushu, japan. all incident cases of hcc were collected weekly from the inpatients (aged 40-69) of the second department of internal medicine, kurume university hospital between april, 1986 and may, 1992. one control for a male case and 4 controls for a female case were sampled, being matched to a c ... | 1993 | 8396564 |
| low prevalence of hepatitis c virus infection among hospital staff and acupuncturists in kyushu, japan. | during 1987 and 1988, samples of serum were collected from 1097 members of the staff of four prefectural hospitals in miyazaki prefecture and from 183 acupuncturists in fukuoka city, japan. the staff included both surgical and non-surgical doctors, radiographers, physiotherapists, nurses, laboratory technicians and others. the samples were tested for the following hepatitis c virus (hcv) markers; antibodies to c100 (anti-c100) by means of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) with supplement ... | 1993 | 7681088 |
| transmission of hepatitis c virus by health care workers in a rural area of japan. | the prevailing route of hepatitis c virus (hcv) transmission in japan is unclear, so we expected that a survey of routes of hcv infection in an endemic area might clarify the mode of transmission. | 1995 | 7537445 |
| a seroepidemiological study of hepatitis c virus (hcv) in an area with a high prevalence of chronic liver disease in the kyushu district of japan. | the incidence of hepatitis virus type c (hcv) in an area, futase, of iizuka city in chikuho province in the northeastern part of fukuoka prefecture in kyushu, japan, was estimated by screening sera for anti-hcv antibodies. titers of anti human t-lymphotropic virus type i (htlv-i) antibodies and hepatitis virus type b surface antigens (hbs) were also determined. the area of the present study is known to have a particularly high prevalence of chronic liver diseases, because coal mining was the key ... | 1994 | 7523761 |
| seroepidemiology of hepatitis c virus infection in hemodialysis patients and the general population in fukuoka and okinawa, japan. | in 1992, a seroepidemiologic study was carried out among hemodialysis patients and the general population in fukuoka and okinawa, japan to determine the presence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection and hcv viremia. the markers used were antibody to hcv, determined by second-generation assay (anti-hcv), and hcv rna, determined by the polymerase chain reaction. the prevalence of anti-hcv in fukuoka was 3.3%, 73 per 2237 persons, significantly (p < 0.001) higher than the 0.4%, 5 per 1295, in okina ... | 1994 | 7520320 |
| detection of hcv rna in subjects with antibody to hepatitis c virus among the general population of fukuoka, japan. | volunteer blood donors and aged people who came to hospitals for a thorough physical checkup were surveyed to evaluate the exact prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in the general population of fukuoka, japan. we tested for antibody to hcv (anti-hcv) by second-generation assay and, to distinguish active hcv infection from past resolved infection, we tested for hcv rna in reactive serum samples by polymerase chain reaction. the prevalence of anti-hcv was 286 (2.0%) of 14,341 subjects, ... | 1994 | 7516787 |
| sexual transmission of hepatitis c virus among female prostitutes and patients with sexually transmitted diseases in fukuoka, kyushu, japan. | the authors investigated the prevalence of antibody to hepatitis c virus (anti-hcv) in 404 female prostitutes, 428 clinic patients with a history of at least one episode of sexually transmitted disease, and 8,944 blood donors who served as the controls. all subjects were japanese, and all studies were carried out in fukuoka, kyushu, japan, in 1989. the prevalence of anti-hcv was significantly higher in the prostitutes (6.2%), in the female patients with sexually transmitted diseases (6.1%), and ... | 1992 | 1462972 |
| possible association of hepatitis c virus infection with late-onset psoriasis: a hospital-based observational study. | psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease mainly involving the skin and joints, mediated by pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (tnf)-α. in hepatitis c, continuous inflammation mediated by tnf-α leads to liver cirrhosis and diabetes mellitus. hence, psoriasis and hepatitis c have pathophysiological factors in common. an epidemiological association between the two conditions has been reported, but no detailed research has yet been performed. frequency of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infe ... | 2013 | 23961783 |
| a prospective study of blood transfusion history and liver cancer in a high-endemic area of japan. | the high prevalence of liver cancer in japan may be owing to infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv), for which the major transmission route is blood transfusion. however, among the general population, there have been few follow-up studies of people with a history of transfusion. the purpose of this study was to examine whether such a history correlates with the development of liver cancer among the general population of this high-endemic area. | 2002 | 12383335 |