A territory‐wide opportunistic, hospital‐based HCV screening in the general population from northern Italy: The 1969–1989 birth‐cohort

Abstract

The prevalence of active HCV infection in the 1969-1989 population attending health facilities in Lombardy was low. Most viremic patients were Italian-born, with mild liver disease but high-HCV-RNA levels. Due to the higher prevalence in the elderly, the extension of such opportunistic screening programs to lower birth cohorts would be warranted.