Association of hepatitis C with diabetes mellitus in DHQ Hospital Gujranawala

Background: chronic hepatitis c virus (hcv) is becoming a very common problem worldwide with millions of people being reported as infected .at the same time diabetes is also a major health problem spreading like jungle fire. it is being estimated that it will become a pandemic by 2030. aim: to estimate the prevalence of hcv infection in patients with type ii diabetes. methodology: a case control study was conducted at dhq hospital gujranwala from january to june 2015. a total of 510 study subjects were enrolled. biodata and other information was collected by questionnaire. hcv antibody test was done by elisa. results: the prevalence of hcv in type ii diabetes and nondiabetic controls was 10.5% and 4.3%,respectively indicating that diabetics are more likely to be seropositive for hepatitis c (ci: 95%). conclusion: in this study,we found evidence of association between hcv and type ii diabetes. as we did not perform hcv rna test,we could not assess the association with hcv viremia.