Epidemiology of Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients Born Before 1969 in the Hospital Setting: a Spontaneous Opportunistic Screening Initiative.

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Brief Summary: The goal of this monocentric prospective observational study is to evaluate the prevalence of unknown hepatitis C virus chronic infection in general population born before january 1st 1968 in Italy.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

what is the prevalence of hepatits C virus infection in general population born before January 1st, 1968? What rare the characteristics of these patients compared to the general population? What is the prevalence of patients tested HCV positive who are referred to the Hepatology Outpatient Clinic for further evaluation? What is the prevalence of patients with HCV infection detected during the study and treated with direct antiviral agents during follow up?

Participants will be tested with a point of care screening test (Meridian, Bioscience) able to detect anti-HCV antibodies to detect the presence of antibodies against HCV.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Patients born before January 1st 1968 who lived in Italy referred to any departments of the Policlinico A. Gemelli

Exclusion Criteria

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis C virus in cohort population	24 months	Evaluation of prevalence of antibodies against HCV in patients referred to any department of Policlinico Gemelli born before January 1st 1968

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Prevalence of patients with a confirmed chronic HCV infection who are referred to Hepatology Outpatient clinic	24 months
Characteristics of population	24 months
Prevalence of patients with a confirmed chronic HCV infection who are treated with direct antiviral agents	24 months

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