Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?

Hepatitis C is a systemic disease that has many extrahepatic manifestations in addition to hepatic inflammation and fibrosis, some of which may result in a poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Fatigue is perhaps the most frequent and disabling extrahepatic symptom of hepatitis C virus (HCV),...

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Autor principal: Abdo, Ayman A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568517
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.41727
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description Hepatitis C is a systemic disease that has many extrahepatic manifestations in addition to hepatic inflammation and fibrosis, some of which may result in a poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Fatigue is perhaps the most frequent and disabling extrahepatic symptom of hepatitis C virus (HCV), reported in almost one-half of all chronically infected individuals. Many other factors are associated with a poor quality of life in patients with HCV, including a number of physical and psychological factors. The objective of this article is to review the association between HCV and impaired HRQOL due to fatigue and psychological disturbances.
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spelling pubmed-27029192009-06-30 Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient? Abdo, Ayman A. Saudi J Gastroenterol Review Article Hepatitis C is a systemic disease that has many extrahepatic manifestations in addition to hepatic inflammation and fibrosis, some of which may result in a poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Fatigue is perhaps the most frequent and disabling extrahepatic symptom of hepatitis C virus (HCV), reported in almost one-half of all chronically infected individuals. Many other factors are associated with a poor quality of life in patients with HCV, including a number of physical and psychological factors. The objective of this article is to review the association between HCV and impaired HRQOL due to fatigue and psychological disturbances. Medknow Publications 2008-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2702919/ /pubmed/19568517 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.41727 Text en © The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?
title Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?
title_full Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?
title_fullStr Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?
title_full_unstemmed Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?
title_short Hepatitis C and Poor Quality of Life: Is it the Virus or the Patient?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19568517
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.41727
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