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BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends 150-300 minutes of physical activity per week... more BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends 150-300 minutes of physical activity per week to lower health risks caused by sedentary behavior. Incorporating active transport (AT), non-motorized methods of transportation like walking and cycling, into daily life is an efficient way for individuals to reach recommended levels of physical activity. Active transportation can also improve the environment by reducing pollution emission when people make a switch from personal motorized vehicles. Smartphones have been explored as a tool to deliver health interventions through mobile apps, especially in the field of behavior change in weight loss and physical activity. OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore the extent of the usage of mobile apps in the field of active transport, both academically and commercially. We want to know if and how much mobile apps are being used in active transport research, as well as its availability commercially. This will allow us to realize the current ...

Methods of Information in Medicine, 1999

Within a hospital, the moving of medical information systems from retrospective data-gathering me... more Within a hospital, the moving of medical information systems from retrospective data-gathering methods to prospective clinical information systems raises the question of the confidentiality of patient data. A method of improving the traditional matrix model usually used to achieve access controls is described. The event-driven model refers to the way a security system ensures that a given user has a valid »need-to« relationship to a given patient. Events are defined as the occurrence of specific data that trigger the creation or the updating of the relationship between the identity of a user and the identity of a patient (e. g., admission, discharge, transfer, prescription, and report). The creation and the deletion of the relationships between users and patients are based on numerous repositories and working lists of patients. This implementation requires an organization of the hospital activities which is able to manage, in a real-time manner, those repositories as closely as poss...

Sante Publique, 2011

Dans l’objectif de proposer des pistes de reflexion vers un rapprochement des systemes d’informat... more Dans l’objectif de proposer des pistes de reflexion vers un rapprochement des systemes d’information, une analyse descriptive et comparative des outils utilises par les professionnels de sante specialises dans les troubles addictifs, a ete realisee.Le guide d’evaluation des besoins de compensation des personnes handicapees (GEVA) des Maisons Departementales des Personnes Handicapees structure les informations en volets, dont un psychologique. Il rassemble l’ensemble des informations sociales et environnementales du Recueil Commun sur les Addictions et les Prises en charge (RECAP).Le programme de medicalisation des systemes d’information structure les informations relatives aux prises en charge. Il ne repere cependant pas suffisamment les situations sociales.La classification internationale des maladies propose des codes diagnostiques complexes et synthetiques, utilises pour decrire modalites de consommation de produits, facteurs etiologiques et complications psychiques et somatiques...

Studies in health technology and informatics, 1998

Talking about the problems of integration in medical information systems, the necessity to provid... more Talking about the problems of integration in medical information systems, the necessity to provide end users with a consistent and coherent view of patient's data, has been largely reported. In order to attempt this goal, systems need to perform semantic integration. We propose a pragmatic way to describe the semantics of the elements of a database, based on a bottom-up three steps process: 1. a back documentation of the elements of the system from their description contained in the data catalog of the database 2. a first semantic extension to transform a data catalog into a data dictionary 3. a second semantic extension to create a dictionary of the medical concepts from a data dictionary. This dictionary of concepts can be considered as the final result of "semantic integration". It contains a set of entities directly understandable by the end users. These entities are deduced or built from the elements collected and characterized in the data dictionary. This work re...

La Lecture critique d'article medical scientifique (LCA) a ete recemment mise au programme de... more La Lecture critique d'article medical scientifique (LCA) a ete recemment mise au programme des Epreuves classantes nationales (ECN). Il n'y a pas de donnee disponible sur son aptitude a classer les etudiants ni son impact sur leur classement.Materiel et methodeNeuf dossiers et une epreuve de LCA ont ete administres a 122 etudiants. Index de difficulte, de discrimination et de fidelite des scores de l'epreuve de LCA ont ete determines. La proportion d’ex aequo a l'issue de l'epreuve de LCA a ete mesuree. Les rangs de classement ont ete determines a l'issue de l'epreuve de neuf dossiers, puis apres adjonction des scores de l'epreuve de LCA, comptant pour 5 puis 10 % de la note finale.ResultatsLes scores de LCA etaient de 58 ± 33 sur 100, avec un index de difficulte de 0,20 ± 0,19 a 0,88 ± 0,21, un index de discrimination de 0,26 a 0,62 par question et un indice de fidelite a 0,42. Cent seize etudiants (95,1 %) etaient ex aequo pour l'epreuve de LCA....

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2014

INTRODUCTION In Africa, mortality statistics are not reliable due to the low performance of the d... more INTRODUCTION In Africa, mortality statistics are not reliable due to the low performance of the death registering systems. Our aim is to implement an efficient system. In this article we make a comparison between the existing system model and the new system that will be set up. METHOD UML has been used as the modeling language based on the 2TUP analysis methods. RESULTS the new system for registering deaths and their causes was conceived and represented through activities, utilization cases and data model diagrams. DISCUSSION We have developed a tool for death registration taking into account African hospitals characteristics. The progressive deployment of this system at the CHUSS of Bobo-Dioulasso enables users and actors to appropriate it.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2016

INTRODUCTION The information system on the causes of death (ISCD), set up in Burkina Faso in Janu... more INTRODUCTION The information system on the causes of death (ISCD), set up in Burkina Faso in January 2014 at the University Hospital Center Souro Sanon (UHCSS) of Bobo-Dioulasso, was evaluated to assess its completeness in terms of death statistics generation. METHOD The capture-recapture method was used to assess this quality control using the three-sources technique. RESULTS The cross verification of the three data sources (mortuary, admission department, death certificate) gave the following estimations: number of deaths observed: 735, total estimated deaths: 852 [820-900], i.e. 86% of completeness achieved by the statistics generating system. DISCUSSION The ISCD is functional and produces easy-to-cross-check quality data. It could be extended to the entire country for the generation of mortality statistics. Nevertheless, it needs to be improved before deploying across the country.

Titre : Serious games en medecine et sante (SeGaMed 2013) : Ouverture de la journee. Intervenants... more Titre : Serious games en medecine et sante (SeGaMed 2013) : Ouverture de la journee. Intervenants : Pascal STACCCINI, Jean-Francois CARRASCO Presidents du comite d'organisation. Resume : Ouverture de la journee : Serious games en medecine et sante (SeGaMed 2013) : Les auteurs n’ont pas transmis de conflit d’interet concernant les donnees diffusees dans cette video ou publiees dans la reference citee. Conference enregistree dans le cadre de la 2eme conference nationale sur l’usage des jeux serieux dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage en medecine et en sante (SeGaMed 2013) a Nice les 12 et 13 septembre 2013. Realisation, production : Canal U/3S Mots cles : SeGaMed, Nice, 2013, medecine, sante, Serious Games, jeux serieux, pedagogie, enseignement, apprentissage, formation

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2016

In France, medicalization of information systems program (PMSI) is an essential tool for the mana... more In France, medicalization of information systems program (PMSI) is an essential tool for the management planning and funding of health. The performance of encoding data inherent to hospital stays has become a major challenge for health institutions. Some studies have highlighted the impact of organizations set up on encoding quality and financial production. The aim of this study is to evaluate a computerized information system and new staff organization impact for treatment of the encoded information.

Abstract: Mathematics has given a great deal to cartography, notably in methods for dividing up s... more Abstract: Mathematics has given a great deal to cartography, notably in methods for dividing up space (polygons). In 1938, Bachelard, the eminent scientific philosopher, wrote about the need to introduce mathematics into other sciences: hostility to mathematics is a bad sign when it is combined with the desire to directly engage with scientific phenomena. According to Rene Thom, mathematics is the “universal theoretical language”. Lafforgue (Professor of mathematics and Fields Medal recipient in 2002) points out that mathematics notably enables us to produce measurements which are highly useful to cartographers in their approach to analyzing space.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021

The analysis of Mycobacterial Interpersed Repetitive Unit-Variable Number of Tandem Repeat (MIRU-... more The analysis of Mycobacterial Interpersed Repetitive Unit-Variable Number of Tandem Repeat (MIRU-VNTR) discriminates against the species of M. tuberculosis involved in the transmission of the disease. The reference method is the manual method. Our study involved developing a bioinformatics method of interpreting MIRU-VNTR and comparing it to the manual method. For this we used two softwares, namely imagej and Microsoft Excel. Imagej was used to determine the migration distance of the bands and for the measure of size in a base pair. The number of repetitions of 18 markers used was analyzed with Excel macro. The results obtained were: 27% of the results exactly consistent, 16% of outliers generated by the macro and 57% of the results not matching.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021

Emerging diseases are a major public health problem as illustrated by the current coronavirus dis... more Emerging diseases are a major public health problem as illustrated by the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. To make the right decisions, public health departments need a decision-making system. In Africa few IT systems have been put in place to help managers of public health in the analysis of their multidisciplinary data. The majority of digital health solutions are operational databases, as well, focused on surveillance activities that do not include the laboratory component. This paper describes the design model and implementation of data warehouse for dangerous pathogen monitoring in a laboratories network. Talend data integration is used to extract data in Excel sheets, transform it and load it into a MySQL database.

Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021

Purpose. To determine the course and outcomes of cataract surgery in one-eyed patients. Methods. ... more Purpose. To determine the course and outcomes of cataract surgery in one-eyed patients. Methods. This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the University Hospital of Nice, France. All one-eyed patients who underwent cataract surgery in their functional eye between January 2014 and December 2018 were included. A one-eyed patient was defined as having a visual acuity (VA) ≤20/200 in the other eye. Data were collected from the medical records and included the sociodemographic factors, the past medical history, data from the preoperative and postoperative clinical examinations, the surgical course, and the visual outcomes. Results. One hundred one-eyed patients with a mean age of 74.01 years were included (48 men/52 women). The mean preoperative VA was 20/100 (+0.74 logMAR). The VA ranged between 20/200 and 20/40 in 75 (75%) patients, was >20/40 in 8 (8%), and was <20/200 in 17 (17%) patients. Fifty-eight (58%) patients were operated on an outpatient basis. General or locor...

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2021

Summary Objective: To summarise the state of the art during the year 2020 in consumer health info... more Summary Objective: To summarise the state of the art during the year 2020 in consumer health informatics and education, with a special emphasis on “Managing Pandemics with Health Informatics - Successes and Challenges”. Methods: We conducted a systematic search of articles published in PubMed using a predefined set of queries, which identified 147 potential articles for review. These articles were screened according to topic relevance and 15 were selected for consideration of best paper candidates, which were then presented to a panel of international experts for full paper review and scoring. The top five papers were discussed in a consensus meeting. Three papers received the highest score from the expert panel, and these papers were selected to be representative papers on consumer informatics for managing pandemics in the year 2020. Results: Bibliometrics analysis conducted on words found in abstracts of the candidate papers revealed 4 clusters of articles, where the clustering ou...

Santé Publique, 2015

La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que d... more La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-sante-publique-2015-3-page-353.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info.

International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2019

Background: Hepatitis C and chronic kidney disease (CKD) both present an unsolved public health p... more Background: Hepatitis C and chronic kidney disease (CKD) both present an unsolved public health problem Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is easily transmitted in haemodialysis units and by kidney transplantation. HCV leads to increased mortality and morbidity due to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, while accelerating the progression of CKD. The aim of the study was to describe the demographic, clinical/biochemical profile and prevalence of patients with CKD who have HCV infection.Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of patients with CKD who presented to out/in patient department of medicine in a tertiary care center in Jammu from a period of Feb 2016 to Nov 2018. Detailed clinical history along with previous lab reports were noted and tests for HCV infection were conducted in all patients. Diagnosis of HCV was made via HCV RNA(RT PCR) and positive Anti HCV IgG serology.Results: Total 67 patients were included with median age of 54 years (range 43-72 years) with majority 76.1% ...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends 150-300 minutes of physical activity per week... more BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends 150-300 minutes of physical activity per week to lower health risks caused by sedentary behavior. Incorporating active transport (AT), non-motorized methods of transportation like walking and cycling, into daily life is an efficient way for individuals to reach recommended levels of physical activity. Active transportation can also improve the environment by reducing pollution emission when people make a switch from personal motorized vehicles. Smartphones have been explored as a tool to deliver health interventions through mobile apps, especially in the field of behavior change in weight loss and physical activity. OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore the extent of the usage of mobile apps in the field of active transport, both academically and commercially. We want to know if and how much mobile apps are being used in active transport research, as well as its availability commercially. This will allow us to realize the current ...

Methods of Information in Medicine, 1999

Within a hospital, the moving of medical information systems from retrospective data-gathering me... more Within a hospital, the moving of medical information systems from retrospective data-gathering methods to prospective clinical information systems raises the question of the confidentiality of patient data. A method of improving the traditional matrix model usually used to achieve access controls is described. The event-driven model refers to the way a security system ensures that a given user has a valid »need-to« relationship to a given patient. Events are defined as the occurrence of specific data that trigger the creation or the updating of the relationship between the identity of a user and the identity of a patient (e. g., admission, discharge, transfer, prescription, and report). The creation and the deletion of the relationships between users and patients are based on numerous repositories and working lists of patients. This implementation requires an organization of the hospital activities which is able to manage, in a real-time manner, those repositories as closely as poss...

Sante Publique, 2011

Dans l’objectif de proposer des pistes de reflexion vers un rapprochement des systemes d’informat... more Dans l’objectif de proposer des pistes de reflexion vers un rapprochement des systemes d’information, une analyse descriptive et comparative des outils utilises par les professionnels de sante specialises dans les troubles addictifs, a ete realisee.Le guide d’evaluation des besoins de compensation des personnes handicapees (GEVA) des Maisons Departementales des Personnes Handicapees structure les informations en volets, dont un psychologique. Il rassemble l’ensemble des informations sociales et environnementales du Recueil Commun sur les Addictions et les Prises en charge (RECAP).Le programme de medicalisation des systemes d’information structure les informations relatives aux prises en charge. Il ne repere cependant pas suffisamment les situations sociales.La classification internationale des maladies propose des codes diagnostiques complexes et synthetiques, utilises pour decrire modalites de consommation de produits, facteurs etiologiques et complications psychiques et somatiques...

Studies in health technology and informatics, 1998

Talking about the problems of integration in medical information systems, the necessity to provid... more Talking about the problems of integration in medical information systems, the necessity to provide end users with a consistent and coherent view of patient's data, has been largely reported. In order to attempt this goal, systems need to perform semantic integration. We propose a pragmatic way to describe the semantics of the elements of a database, based on a bottom-up three steps process: 1. a back documentation of the elements of the system from their description contained in the data catalog of the database 2. a first semantic extension to transform a data catalog into a data dictionary 3. a second semantic extension to create a dictionary of the medical concepts from a data dictionary. This dictionary of concepts can be considered as the final result of "semantic integration". It contains a set of entities directly understandable by the end users. These entities are deduced or built from the elements collected and characterized in the data dictionary. This work re...

La Lecture critique d'article medical scientifique (LCA) a ete recemment mise au programme de... more La Lecture critique d'article medical scientifique (LCA) a ete recemment mise au programme des Epreuves classantes nationales (ECN). Il n'y a pas de donnee disponible sur son aptitude a classer les etudiants ni son impact sur leur classement.Materiel et methodeNeuf dossiers et une epreuve de LCA ont ete administres a 122 etudiants. Index de difficulte, de discrimination et de fidelite des scores de l'epreuve de LCA ont ete determines. La proportion d’ex aequo a l'issue de l'epreuve de LCA a ete mesuree. Les rangs de classement ont ete determines a l'issue de l'epreuve de neuf dossiers, puis apres adjonction des scores de l'epreuve de LCA, comptant pour 5 puis 10 % de la note finale.ResultatsLes scores de LCA etaient de 58 ± 33 sur 100, avec un index de difficulte de 0,20 ± 0,19 a 0,88 ± 0,21, un index de discrimination de 0,26 a 0,62 par question et un indice de fidelite a 0,42. Cent seize etudiants (95,1 %) etaient ex aequo pour l'epreuve de LCA....

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2014

INTRODUCTION In Africa, mortality statistics are not reliable due to the low performance of the d... more INTRODUCTION In Africa, mortality statistics are not reliable due to the low performance of the death registering systems. Our aim is to implement an efficient system. In this article we make a comparison between the existing system model and the new system that will be set up. METHOD UML has been used as the modeling language based on the 2TUP analysis methods. RESULTS the new system for registering deaths and their causes was conceived and represented through activities, utilization cases and data model diagrams. DISCUSSION We have developed a tool for death registration taking into account African hospitals characteristics. The progressive deployment of this system at the CHUSS of Bobo-Dioulasso enables users and actors to appropriate it.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2016

INTRODUCTION The information system on the causes of death (ISCD), set up in Burkina Faso in Janu... more INTRODUCTION The information system on the causes of death (ISCD), set up in Burkina Faso in January 2014 at the University Hospital Center Souro Sanon (UHCSS) of Bobo-Dioulasso, was evaluated to assess its completeness in terms of death statistics generation. METHOD The capture-recapture method was used to assess this quality control using the three-sources technique. RESULTS The cross verification of the three data sources (mortuary, admission department, death certificate) gave the following estimations: number of deaths observed: 735, total estimated deaths: 852 [820-900], i.e. 86% of completeness achieved by the statistics generating system. DISCUSSION The ISCD is functional and produces easy-to-cross-check quality data. It could be extended to the entire country for the generation of mortality statistics. Nevertheless, it needs to be improved before deploying across the country.

Titre : Serious games en medecine et sante (SeGaMed 2013) : Ouverture de la journee. Intervenants... more Titre : Serious games en medecine et sante (SeGaMed 2013) : Ouverture de la journee. Intervenants : Pascal STACCCINI, Jean-Francois CARRASCO Presidents du comite d'organisation. Resume : Ouverture de la journee : Serious games en medecine et sante (SeGaMed 2013) : Les auteurs n’ont pas transmis de conflit d’interet concernant les donnees diffusees dans cette video ou publiees dans la reference citee. Conference enregistree dans le cadre de la 2eme conference nationale sur l’usage des jeux serieux dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage en medecine et en sante (SeGaMed 2013) a Nice les 12 et 13 septembre 2013. Realisation, production : Canal U/3S Mots cles : SeGaMed, Nice, 2013, medecine, sante, Serious Games, jeux serieux, pedagogie, enseignement, apprentissage, formation

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2016

In France, medicalization of information systems program (PMSI) is an essential tool for the mana... more In France, medicalization of information systems program (PMSI) is an essential tool for the management planning and funding of health. The performance of encoding data inherent to hospital stays has become a major challenge for health institutions. Some studies have highlighted the impact of organizations set up on encoding quality and financial production. The aim of this study is to evaluate a computerized information system and new staff organization impact for treatment of the encoded information.

Abstract: Mathematics has given a great deal to cartography, notably in methods for dividing up s... more Abstract: Mathematics has given a great deal to cartography, notably in methods for dividing up space (polygons). In 1938, Bachelard, the eminent scientific philosopher, wrote about the need to introduce mathematics into other sciences: hostility to mathematics is a bad sign when it is combined with the desire to directly engage with scientific phenomena. According to Rene Thom, mathematics is the “universal theoretical language”. Lafforgue (Professor of mathematics and Fields Medal recipient in 2002) points out that mathematics notably enables us to produce measurements which are highly useful to cartographers in their approach to analyzing space.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021

The analysis of Mycobacterial Interpersed Repetitive Unit-Variable Number of Tandem Repeat (MIRU-... more The analysis of Mycobacterial Interpersed Repetitive Unit-Variable Number of Tandem Repeat (MIRU-VNTR) discriminates against the species of M. tuberculosis involved in the transmission of the disease. The reference method is the manual method. Our study involved developing a bioinformatics method of interpreting MIRU-VNTR and comparing it to the manual method. For this we used two softwares, namely imagej and Microsoft Excel. Imagej was used to determine the migration distance of the bands and for the measure of size in a base pair. The number of repetitions of 18 markers used was analyzed with Excel macro. The results obtained were: 27% of the results exactly consistent, 16% of outliers generated by the macro and 57% of the results not matching.

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021

Emerging diseases are a major public health problem as illustrated by the current coronavirus dis... more Emerging diseases are a major public health problem as illustrated by the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. To make the right decisions, public health departments need a decision-making system. In Africa few IT systems have been put in place to help managers of public health in the analysis of their multidisciplinary data. The majority of digital health solutions are operational databases, as well, focused on surveillance activities that do not include the laboratory component. This paper describes the design model and implementation of data warehouse for dangerous pathogen monitoring in a laboratories network. Talend data integration is used to extract data in Excel sheets, transform it and load it into a MySQL database.

Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021

Purpose. To determine the course and outcomes of cataract surgery in one-eyed patients. Methods. ... more Purpose. To determine the course and outcomes of cataract surgery in one-eyed patients. Methods. This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the University Hospital of Nice, France. All one-eyed patients who underwent cataract surgery in their functional eye between January 2014 and December 2018 were included. A one-eyed patient was defined as having a visual acuity (VA) ≤20/200 in the other eye. Data were collected from the medical records and included the sociodemographic factors, the past medical history, data from the preoperative and postoperative clinical examinations, the surgical course, and the visual outcomes. Results. One hundred one-eyed patients with a mean age of 74.01 years were included (48 men/52 women). The mean preoperative VA was 20/100 (+0.74 logMAR). The VA ranged between 20/200 and 20/40 in 75 (75%) patients, was >20/40 in 8 (8%), and was <20/200 in 17 (17%) patients. Fifty-eight (58%) patients were operated on an outpatient basis. General or locor...

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2021

Summary Objective: To summarise the state of the art during the year 2020 in consumer health info... more Summary Objective: To summarise the state of the art during the year 2020 in consumer health informatics and education, with a special emphasis on “Managing Pandemics with Health Informatics - Successes and Challenges”. Methods: We conducted a systematic search of articles published in PubMed using a predefined set of queries, which identified 147 potential articles for review. These articles were screened according to topic relevance and 15 were selected for consideration of best paper candidates, which were then presented to a panel of international experts for full paper review and scoring. The top five papers were discussed in a consensus meeting. Three papers received the highest score from the expert panel, and these papers were selected to be representative papers on consumer informatics for managing pandemics in the year 2020. Results: Bibliometrics analysis conducted on words found in abstracts of the candidate papers revealed 4 clusters of articles, where the clustering ou...

Santé Publique, 2015

La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que d... more La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-sante-publique-2015-3-page-353.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info.

International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2019

Background: Hepatitis C and chronic kidney disease (CKD) both present an unsolved public health p... more Background: Hepatitis C and chronic kidney disease (CKD) both present an unsolved public health problem Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is easily transmitted in haemodialysis units and by kidney transplantation. HCV leads to increased mortality and morbidity due to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, while accelerating the progression of CKD. The aim of the study was to describe the demographic, clinical/biochemical profile and prevalence of patients with CKD who have HCV infection.Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of patients with CKD who presented to out/in patient department of medicine in a tertiary care center in Jammu from a period of Feb 2016 to Nov 2018. Detailed clinical history along with previous lab reports were noted and tests for HCV infection were conducted in all patients. Diagnosis of HCV was made via HCV RNA(RT PCR) and positive Anti HCV IgG serology.Results: Total 67 patients were included with median age of 54 years (range 43-72 years) with majority 76.1% ...