Prevalence of diabetes mellitus among hepatitis b infected patients attending communicable disease research and training center, Suez City, Egypt

Abstract EN

Background : HBV is a common major health problem in Egypt and world-wild with burden on national health care system.

The association between HBV infection and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been reported over the past decade.

However, the relationship between HBV in-fection and T2DM remains controversial.

Aim: to study the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among hepatitis B patients in Suez, Egypt.

Patients and Methods: the study included 216 HBV infected patients who attend for regular follow-up in the communicable disease research and training center-Suez city, Egypt.

Medical information was collected from patients’ medical rec-ord.

Results: the prevalence of Diabetes among HBV patients was 20.4 %.

About 29.6 % of HBV patients had liver cirrhosis, and 4.6% had HCC.

The majority (54.54 %) of patients having both HBV and DM were males.

Conclusion: DM is a common medical condition in patients with HBV.