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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 The new figures came from researchers analyzing mortality rates derived from U.S. Census and multiple-cause-of-death data from 1995 to 2004. They included 56,409 HCV related deaths.
The observed increases likely reflect both true increases in mortality and the growing use of serologic tests for HCV, the authors said.
"The relatively young age of persons dying from hepatitis C-related liver disease has made hepatitis C-related disease a leading infectious cause of years of potential life lost as well as an important cause of premature mortality overall," the authors concluded.
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