ABSTRACT
In addition to causing serious liver disease [cirrhosis and liver cancer], HCV infection can also contribute to the development of some diseases outside the liver among these, diabetes mellitus. [DM]. the frequency of type 2 diabetes mellitus tends to be higher in patients infected with hepatitis C virus [HCV] than those without HCV infection [Mehta et al., 2000]. The study was carried on 70 individual, 60 were HCV positive patients and 10 apparently healthy persons. We found that 31.6% of the patients were diabetic, 45% of the patients have impaired glucose tolerance, and 23.4% patients with normal blood glucose. There was a highly significant increase in both C-peptide and blood insulin levels in diabetic patients when compared to patients with impaired glucose tolerance and patients with normal blood glucose, p-value 0.0001