All adults ages 18 to 79 without known liver disease should be screened for hepatitis C infection, regardless of their risk, according to a new recommendation by the US Preventive Services Task Force
This updated recommendation, published in the medical journal JAMA on Monday, expands the task force's previous 2013 recommendation, which was to screen only adults born between 1945 and 1965 and others at high risk for infection."People with hepatitis C do not always feel sick and may not know they have it," Task Force chair Dr. Douglas K. Owens, an author of the recommendation and a general internist, said in a news release on Monday.
"One estimate is that at present rates of HCV screening, treatment, and new infections, 62% of people with HCV in the US will be aware of their infection by 2030 and 49% will have been cured," Price and Brandman wrote."Clearly, reducing incident infections will require programs to reduce transmission during intravenous drug use, such as needle-exchange or other programs," they wrote.
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