Prevalence and characteristics of Hepatitis B and C in HIV‐infected patients from the RESINA cohort
- RESINA‐Study: treatment naive patients from 35 HIV‐centers in NRW
before starting the first ART
- Characterization of coinfection with HBV
and HCV, analysis of risk factors
- HBsAg, anti‐HBc, anti‐HBs (HBeAg, anti‐HBe) of 918 patients
HBV‐DNA in randomly selected 554 patients
- HCV‐Ab determined in 917 patients, HCV RNA in a subgroup of Ab‐positive
patients
- Epidemiological paramters:
age, gender, mode of transmission, ethnicity clinical parameters: CDC stage laboratory values: HIV viral load, CD4, AST, ALT, GGT