Elitsur Y, Liu X
Department of Pediatrics, Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington.
W V Med J. 1993 Sep;89(9):389-90.
Hepatitis B is a major cause of chronic liver disease which leads to morbidity and mortality among patients. In the current era, when federal and governmental support for health care is shrinking, the HBsAg+ carrier state in West Virginia becomes an important factor for future health care planning. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the HBsAg+ carrier rate in serum samples studied in the Cabell-Huntington Hospital Laboratory from January 1990-January 1993. Only 50/6,209 (0.8%) serum samples were positive for HBsAg. These positive samples represented 10 different patients, 8/10 were females and only 4/8 were of child-bearing age. We conclude that HBsAg+ carrier state in patients from Cabell County is below the national average.
乙型肝炎是导致患者发病和死亡的慢性肝病的主要原因。在当前这个联邦和政府对医疗保健的支持不断缩减的时代，西弗吉尼亚州的乙肝表面抗原（HBsAg）阳性携带者状态成为未来医疗保健规划的一个重要因素。在本研究中，我们回顾性调查了1990年1月至1993年1月在卡贝尔 - 亨廷顿医院实验室研究的血清样本中的HBsAg阳性携带率。只有50/6209（0.8%）的血清样本HBsAg呈阳性。这些阳性样本代表了10名不同的患者，其中8/10为女性，且只有4/8处于育龄期。我们得出结论，卡贝尔县患者的HBsAg阳性携带者状态低于全国平均水平。
