Hepatitis C and diabetes mellitus.
J Indian Med Assoc
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2006 Feb; 104(2): 86-9
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-100754
ABSTRACT
Hepatitis C virus infection in diabetes mellitus is more common than in non-diabetic population. Earlier it was thought to be due to more use of needles for insulin injections and frequent blood examination which has been recently antagonised by recent studies. Hepatitis C virus infection has shown to produce insulin resistance (because of liberated cytokines) insulin secretory defect (by viral infection or auto-immune damage). Hepatitis C virus infection also leads to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (a probable component of insulin resistance syndrome) and increased iron increased iron storage in the body. All these factors may explain hepatitic C virus infection as an aetiology for diabetes mellitus. If future researches strongly establish this fact, antiviral or vaccines for hepatitis C virus infection should be thought of for preventing diabetes mellitus.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Insulin Resistance
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Comorbidity
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Risk Factors
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Hepatitis C
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Risk Assessment
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
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Fatty Liver
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Risk factors
Language:
English
Journal:
J Indian Med Assoc
Year:
2006
Type:
Article
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