Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection rate in China is about 3%, which means about 30 million patients. More importantly, many of those patients with chronic hepatitis C eventually develop cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC).Our survey found the rate of hepatitis c infection in northeastern China without intervention is 34.3%, due to the abuse of caffeine sodium benzoate. This population has the similar mode of transmission, which is a fine study of the natural outcome hepatitis C. We plan to carry out epidemiological studies for this population, review of the influencing factors of the disease, and analyze the host factors that can effect the prognosis.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the morbidity of hepatitis C with Chinese population.