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. 2021 Sep 9;9(9):1186. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9091186

Table 1.

Overview on viral hepatitis epidemiology reports (values calculated from available data).

Literature Data Year Included Subjects Median Age Male Sex % HCV-Ab
Prevalence %
HBsAg/
HBcAb Prevalence
PWIDs HIV-Ab +n (%)
Babudieri et al. [16] 2005 973 36 87% 38% 6.7%/59.4% 30.4% 73 (7.5)
Pontali et al. [25] 2008 173 NA 100% 90.8% 6.7%/77.4% 91.9% 173
Voller et al. [17] 2011 15,751 39.6 94.2% 9.0% 2.2%/NA NA NA
Sagnelli et al. [18] 2012 3468 NA NA 22.8% 4.4%/NA NA 89 (3.8)
Brandolini et al. 2013 695 43 97.8% 22.4% 6.2%/NA NA 67 (9.6)
Foschi et al. [20] 2016 468 NA NA 9.8% 6.6%/NA NA 15 (3.2)
Babudieri [21] 2016 5353 NA NA 11.3% 3.5%/NA 23,7% 200 (3.7)
Masarone et al. [22] 2020 670 NA 94.02% 14.05% NA/NA 18.6% NA
Fiore et al. [23] 2021 2376 42 98% 10.4% -/NA 22.6% 3 (3.6)

PWIDs: people who inject drugs.