Endocrine Abstracts

In Ukraine, in 2017, an estimated 53000 people were living with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and its prevalence rate was 123.7 patients per 100000 citizens. Symptoms of at least one extra hepatic manifestations appear in more than 50% of HCV-positive patients, and thyroid abnormalities are rather common. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of thyroid function tests and anti-thyroid autoantibodies abnormalities in the untreated patients with c...