The high comorbidity burden of the hepatitis C virus infected population in the United States.

The article discusses a research paper which deals with high comorbidity burden of the hepatitis C virus infected population in the United States. This research is a retrospective cohort study within United States medical claims database among patients with chronic HCV designed to estimate the two-year period prevalence of comorbidities. The result of this US medically insured HCV population is highly comorbid.