High prevalence of the hepatitis C virus infection among the inpatients of schizophrenia and psychoactive substance abuse in Japan.
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry
; 28(3): 591-7, 2004 May.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15093967
ABSTRACT
Prevalence of anti-HCV antibody in 1193 hospitalized patients (848 males and 345 females) in psychiatric department was investigated. Overall prevalence ratio was 9.1%, indicating significantly higher than that of healthy blood donors. In the classification of ICD-10, the prevalence of the inpatients diagnosed in schizophrenia group and psychoactive substance use group accounted for 6.2% and 13.8%, respectively. However, adequate reasons such as sanitary issues were not found to account for the high prevalence. Only the age of the patients could account for the high prevalence in the schizophrenic group. In the psychoactive substance abuse group, the sanitary issues might be a major cause of the very high prevalence of anti-HCV antibody, while other factors such as dysfunction of the immune system might be considered to account for it.
Buscar en Google
Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
2_ODS3
/
8_ODS3_consumo_sustancias_psicoactivas
Problema de salud:
2_sustancias_psicoativas
/
8_alcohol
/
8_other_psychoactive_substance_related_disorders
Asunto principal:
Esquizofrenia
/
Hepatitis C
/
Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias
Tipo de estudio:
Prevalence_studies
/
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adult
/
Female
/
Humans
/
Male
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry
Año:
2004
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Japón