National Academies Report: Eliminating Threat of Viral Hepatitis

• Autores: Jennifer Abbasí
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 317, Nº. 20, 2017, págs. 2053-2053
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Viral hepatitis accounts for more than 20 000 deaths annually in the United States. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides a roadmap for ending these deaths and eliminating hepatitis B and C as public health problems by 2030.

    Diagnosing 90% of people with chronic hepatitis B, bringing 90% of those patients to care, and treating 80% of those patients who need treatment could potentially reduce the number of deaths from hepatitis B in half by 2030, according to estimates by the authors of the report.