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Title: Hep C Is Linked to Kidney Disease but Treatment Mitigates the Risk
Post by: Hep Editors on January 24, 2018, 10:27:15 am
People with hepatitis C virus (HCV) have a higher risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) than the general public but can lower their risk by treating the virus.

Publishing their findings in the journal Hepatology, researchers conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of the Truven Health MarketScan Database of U.S. residents in medical care, covering 2008 to 2015. They assembled a cohort of 56,448 people with hep C and a comparison group, matched one to three, of 169,344 people who did not have the virus.

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https://www.hepmag.com/article/hep-c-linked-kidney-disease-treatment-mitigates-risk