Results of the National Health Screening Program for Hepatitis C among 56-year-olds, Republic of Korea, 2025.

Public Health Wkly Rep · 2026 · PMC13392848 · PMID 42494933

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For individuals in their 50s, which include the age group eligible for the National Health Screening Program, the number of reported cases over the past three years was 1,986 in 2023, 1,768 in 2024, and 1,579 in 2025 (crude incidence rates of 23.0, 20.3, and 18.2 per 100,000 population, respectively), showing a decreasing trend similar to the overall incidence trend ( Figure 3B ).

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