Impact of the 2008 economic crisis on the burden of hepatitis B and C diseases in Southern European countries.

Association between the burden of viral hepatitis and health expenditure Overall, an inverse association was observed between health expenditure and both HBV and HCV acute infections, with results close to significance for aHBV DALYs [-2.54 (-5.09 – 0.01); p = 0.05)] and aHBV YLLs [-2.53 (-5.09 – 0.03); p = 0.05)] in Greece.

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Results Hepatitis B Virus Acute hepatitis B virus infection Overall, a decreasing trend in incidence and prevalence rates of acute hepatitis B virus (aHBV) in WE was observed during the study period (Fig. 1 A, Table 2 ).

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Greece showed an increasing prevalence rate, while Italy showed a decreasing trend that did not reach statistical significance.

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