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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Akita, Tomoyuki
• Tanaka, Junko
• Satake, Masahiro
• Lin, Yingsong
• Wada, Takashi
• Kato, Kiminori
• Inoue, Manami

Titel

Meta-regression Analysis of Sex- and Birth Year-Specific Prevalence of HBsAg and Anti-HCV Among Un-diagnosed Japanese: Data From the First-time Blood Donors, Periodical Health Checkup, and the Comprehensive Health Checkup With Lifestyle Education (Ningen Dock)

Ist Teil von

• Journal of epidemiology, 2020-09, Vol.30 (9), p.420-425

Ort / Verlag

Japan: Japan Epidemiological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study was aimed to precisely estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (anti-HCV) stratified by sex and birth year in Japan. Three large-scaled cohorts: first-time blood donors, periodic health check-up, and comprehensive health check-up with lifestyle education (Ningen dock) were used for pooled prevalence of HBsAg and anti-HCV using meta-regression. Trends of birth year-specific prevalence of HBsAg and anti-HCV among the three cohorts were similar to one another, while birth year-specific pooled prevalence of HBsAg peaked in the 1941-1950 birth cohort. Prevalence of anti-HCV showed a decreasing trend by birth year. We could estimate the pooled prevalence of HBsAg and anti-HCV based on nationwide data. The results can be used as reference data for various countermeasures for hepatitis eradication.