A Cross sectional Study on Prevalence of Hepatitis B & C virus in Antenatal women In a Tertiary Care Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr N.Thamizhselvi; Dr. Prema Elizabeth Jeyanthi David; Mr. R. Mothilal

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

A Cross sectional Study on Prevalence of Hepatitis B & C virus in Antenatal women In a Tertiary Care Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr N. Thamizhselvi, Dr. Prema Elizabeth Jeyanthi David, Mr. R. Mothilal

Abstract :

A study was conducted to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis C (HCV) antibody amongst 1000 healthy antenatal women attending OPD in a tertiary care hospital. The combined mean age of positive cases was 25.3years. Of the 1000 blood samples tested, 54 (5.4%) and 5 (0.5%) were positive for the presence of hepatitis B and C respectively. The seropositive cases did not have any contributory risk factors. No significant relationship was seen between HBV and HCV seropositivity and demographic factors. It is suggested that all pregnant women be routinely screened for HBV in the 3^rd trimester as the majority of positive cases found in 3^rd trimester and it was statistically significant at p–value <0.05. Significant relationship was seen between positive and negative cases of HBV among the previous history of jaundice antenatal women in our study. None of the HCV cases had the previous history of jaundice in the present study.