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Author Topic: People With Hep C More Likely to Die if Uninsured or on Medicaid  (Read 4204 times)

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When people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are covered by Medicaid or are uninsured, they are more likely to die compared with their counterparts who have other types of insurance coverage, MedPage Today reports.

Reporting their findings at Digestive Disease Week, researchers reviewed 2000 to 2010 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey database and identified 311 people with hep C, or 1.4 percent of 19,452 individuals. Factors associated with being more likely to have HCV included being older, Black, male, unmarried, unemployed and a smoker.

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https://www.hepmag.com/article/people-hep-c-likely-die-uninsured-medicaid

 


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