[e-drug] Medicilisation - A way of life (cont'd)

[Carlo Struglia <c.strugli@tiscalinet.it>]

E-drug: Medicilisation - A way of life (cont'd)
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I disagree with this mail: about 15-20% of B hepatitis don't
recover, but become a chronic disease. Chronic Active Hepatitis
(CAH) may develops cirrhosis with an incidence/year of about 3%
and cirrhosis is at risk to develop Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC).
HCC shows an increasing mortality from 4.8 of 1969 to 11.9 on
1998 and many Autors demonstrated a strong association beetwin
HCC and HCV and HBV infection by transactivaction of viral
proteins (X, PreS2). In Taiwan, Thailand, Senegal the B vaccination
showed a dramatic fall of incidence from19.8% to 0.7.

Carlo Struglia, MD
National Institute for Infectious Diseases
IRCCS, L. Spallanzani
Rome, Italy
e-mail: c.strugli@tiscalinet.it


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