Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past
This study was performed with the purpose of testing the hypothesis that the high prevalence of hepatitis C among former athletes is associated with their past use of injectable stimulants. The study involved the participation of 208 former professional and amateur soccer and basketball players from...
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| author | Afonso Dinis Costa Passos José Fernando de Castro Figueiredo Ana de Lourdes Candolo Martinelli Marcia Villanova Margarida Maria Pásseri do Nascimento Marie Secaf |
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| description | This study was performed with the purpose of testing the hypothesis that the high prevalence of hepatitis C among former athletes is associated with their past use of injectable stimulants. The study involved the participation of 208 former professional and amateur soccer and basketball players from the region of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, who answered a questionnaire regarding their exposure to risk factors, including the use of injectable stimulants in the time they were engaged in sporting activities. ELISA tests were used to detect infection by the hepatitis C virus, and confirmed with PCR and genotyping for the positive cases. It was observed that the former use of injectable stimulants was a practice disseminated among the participants (24.5%), reaching 50.8% in the professionals. The overall prevalence for hepatitis C was 7.2%, with values of 11% among professionals and 5.5% among amateurs. In both categories, the presence of infection was markedly higher among those who admitted past use of injectable stimulants when compared to those who denied such practice (36% and 0.8% among amateurs; 21.9% and 0% among professionals, respectively). Multivariate analysis showed that the use of those substances was the only variable associated with the risk of hepatitis C. This confirms previous observations, performed with reduced sample sizes and without comparison groups, which indicated that the use of injectable vitamins was a risk factor of hepatitis C among former athletes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-966f27aa09664211ad817bbce1b34dc92023-08-02T09:32:23ZengFundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz0074-02761678-80602008-12-01103880981210.1590/S0074-02762008000800011Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the pastAfonso Dinis Costa PassosJosé Fernando de Castro FigueiredoAna de Lourdes Candolo MartinelliMarcia VillanovaMargarida Maria Pásseri do NascimentoMarie SecafThis study was performed with the purpose of testing the hypothesis that the high prevalence of hepatitis C among former athletes is associated with their past use of injectable stimulants. The study involved the participation of 208 former professional and amateur soccer and basketball players from the region of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, who answered a questionnaire regarding their exposure to risk factors, including the use of injectable stimulants in the time they were engaged in sporting activities. ELISA tests were used to detect infection by the hepatitis C virus, and confirmed with PCR and genotyping for the positive cases. It was observed that the former use of injectable stimulants was a practice disseminated among the participants (24.5%), reaching 50.8% in the professionals. The overall prevalence for hepatitis C was 7.2%, with values of 11% among professionals and 5.5% among amateurs. In both categories, the presence of infection was markedly higher among those who admitted past use of injectable stimulants when compared to those who denied such practice (36% and 0.8% among amateurs; 21.9% and 0% among professionals, respectively). Multivariate analysis showed that the use of those substances was the only variable associated with the risk of hepatitis C. This confirms previous observations, performed with reduced sample sizes and without comparison groups, which indicated that the use of injectable vitamins was a risk factor of hepatitis C among former athletes.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762008000800011hepatitis Cformer athletesinjectable stimulants |
| spellingShingle | Afonso Dinis Costa Passos José Fernando de Castro Figueiredo Ana de Lourdes Candolo Martinelli Marcia Villanova Margarida Maria Pásseri do Nascimento Marie Secaf Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz hepatitis C former athletes injectable stimulants |
| title | Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past |
| title_full | Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past |
| title_fullStr | Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past |
| title_short | Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past |
| title_sort | hepatitis c among former athletes association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past |
| topic | hepatitis C former athletes injectable stimulants |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762008000800011 |
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