Abstract:
This study was done in Zinam Specialist Hospital in Kharoum City during the period of February to May 2015 to detect Anti-HCV among patients with diabetes type2.
90 Blood samples were collected, separate sera which stored at -20℃ until IgG antibodies were detected by ELISA. The results revealed that 5/90 (5.5%) of diabetic patients showed anti-HCV antibodies within age group 45-55 years. Two of these positive patients were females and three were males.Statistically, there was no significant difference between the smoker (1.1%) and nonsmoker (4.4%)P value (0.453), also there was no statistical difference between these with family history of diabetes 4 (4.4%) and those with no history 1(1.1%) P value (0.258).
These results needs further study to validate them
