1) The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in HCV positive cases:
As shown in Table (1) including 1661(84.4%) patients without
abnormalities in blood glucose level (BGL) measures while 71 (3.6%)
patients discovered abnormalities in their BGL considered as new
diabetic cases. For patients who are with history of diabetes: 99(5.5%)
patient with well controlled DM and 128(6.5%) patients with
uncontrolled DM. The infection rates were similar between males and
females and there was no statistically significant difference with (p =
0.093). The variables included in regression analysis are age, BMI, and
uncontrolled HTN were statistically significant (P < 0.001).
After adjustment of demographic and HCV risk factors, It was found that
HCV was significantly associated with sub groups Age ≥40 years (p =
0.001), BMI ≥30 kg/m2 (p=0.022), HTN
(p<0.001) Table (5).