Feb 7, 2025 · In 2022, non-Hispanic Black or African Americans were diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B at more than four times the rate of non-Hispanic whites.3 Non-Hispanic Black or African Americans were also more than twice as likely to …

Jan 31, 2025 · Hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable liver infection caused by HBV. HBV is transmitted when blood, semen, or another body fluid from a person infected with the virus enters the body of someone who is uninfected. Hepatitis B can range from a mild, short-term, acute illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, long-term, chronic infection.

Oct 3, 2023 · Black people are less likely to meet the criteria for chronic hepatitis B treatment, but among those who do, the likelihood of starting therapy did not differ significantly by race or socioeconomic factors, according to study results reported in JAMA Network Open.

For hepatitis B and C infections, African Americans disproportionately bear a large burden of disease in the US. The role and importance of African American race however has been less well characterized in the literature among the population of viral hepatitis-infected individuals.

Apr 4, 2024 · Hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by infection of the liver with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV is transmitted when blood, semen, or another body fluid from a person infected with the virus enters the body of someone who is uninfected.

Rates of acute hepatitis B were highest among non-Hispanic Black persons. During 2021, a total of 14,229 newly reported cases of chronic hepatitis B, corresponding to a rate of 5.9 cases per 100,000 people.

• African Americans were twice as likely to develop Hepatitis B, in 2009, than the White population. • African Americans between the ages of 19-24 were three times more likely to have Hepatitis B, in 2008. Causes. Acute hepatitis B is caused by the hepatitis B virus, which is found in certain body fluids of infected persons.

Disparities in hepatitis B diagnosis, disease management, treatment and prevention remain for African Americans and Hispanics. These disparities require a commitment from governmental and public health organizations.

This review will address the current status of hepatitis B and C infection in African Americans in the United States and identify some of the remaining challenges in diagnosis, characterization of natural history, and treatment.

Hepatitis B&C Ignored As Threats To Black Health (BlackDoctor.org) -- They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS ... Read More