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Hepatitis B and C virus infections among patients with end stage renal disease in a low-resourced hemodialysis center in Vietnam: a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2015
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Title
Hepatitis B and C virus infections among patients with end stage renal disease in a low-resourced hemodialysis center in Vietnam: a cross-sectional study
Published in
BMC Public Health, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1532-9
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Cuong Minh Duong, Dariusz Piotr Olszyna, Mary-Louise McLaws

Abstract

Hemodialysis services in Vietnam are being decentralised outside of tertiary hospitals. To identify the challenges to infection control standards for the prevention of bloodborne infections including hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) we tested the magnitude of HBV and HCV infections in the largest unit in Ho Chi Minh City servicing patients with end stage renal disease. All 113 patients provided consent HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) and HCV core antigen (HCV-coreAg) testing. Positive patients were tested for viral genotypes. All participants completed a questionnaire on demographic characteristics, risk factors and previous attendance to other hemodialysis units. Seroprevalence of 113 patients enrolled was 7% (8/113, 95% CI 2.3%-11.8%) HBsAg, 6% (7/113, 95% CI 1.7%-10.6%) HCV-coreAg and 1% (1/113, 95% CI 0.8%-2.6%) co-infection. Having a HBV positive sexual partner significantly increased the risk of acquiring HBV (P = 0.016, Odds Ratio (OR) =29, 95% CI 2-365). Risk factors for HCV included blood transfusion (P = 0.049), multiple visits to different hemodialysis units (P = 0.048, OR = 5.7, 95% CI 1.2-27.5), frequency of hemodialysis (P = 0.029) and AST plasma levels >40 IU/L (P = 0.020, OR = 19.8, 95% CI 2.3-171). On multivariate analysis only blood transfusion remained significant risk factor for HCV (P = 0.027, adjusted OR = 1.2). HCV screening for HCV of blood products must improve to meet the infection prevention challenges of decentralizing hemodialysis services. The level of HCV and HBV in our hemodialysis unit is a warning that universal precautions will be the next challenge for decentralised hemodialysis services in Vietnam.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 1%
Unknown 72 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 15%
Researcher 11 15%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Postgraduate 7 10%
Lecturer 4 5%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 17 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 42%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 19 26%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 June 2022.
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#3,762,692
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#4,170
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#46,853
of 255,442 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#67
of 279 outputs
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