Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Diabetic Patients Type2 at Zinam Specialist Hospital in Khartoum City

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