Hepatitis C Infection Is Four Times More Common in People with Severe Mental Disorder: 'Access to Screening Must Be Facilitated'

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The Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPSM), the Spanish Society of Dual Pathology (SEPD) and the Spanish Association for the Study of Liver Health (AEEH), with the collaboration of the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, have prepared the guide “Recommendations for the elimination of hepatitis C virus in patients with psychiatric pathology”. The entry Active hepatitis C infection is four times more prevalent in people with severe …

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The Spanish Association for the Study of Liver (AEEH) and the Spanish societies of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPSM) and Dual Pathology (SEPD) have produced a document through which they have exposed that active infection with hepatitis C virus "is approximately four times more prevalent in people with severe mental disorder than in the general population".

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The prevalence of active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients with severe mental disorder is approximately four times higher than that estimated for the general population. In addition, up to 58% may not present clearly identifiable risk factors. "Limiting screening to patients with a known history of risk may leave cases undiagnosed," they say on October 1, World Hepatitis C Day, the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEP…