NCT03839979

HCV Viral Hepatitis, Blood Sugar Level and Systolic Blood Pressure in Egypt

Association Between HCV Viral Hepatitis, Blood Sugar Level and Systolic Blood Pressure in the Egyptian Population

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 71,975 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

An observational double-blind cohort study that examined the association between HCV viral hepatitis, blood sugar level and systolic blood pressure in the Egyptian population

Detailed description

a cohort study on greater than 70000 Egyptian patients had been conducted. for all patients,1- we detected the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA antigens ( hepatitis C virus)presence using BIOLINE HCV kits( qualitative test for diagnosis of hepatitis C virus in the blood), For all positive patients, confirmatory rapid screening test was performed and all patients who tested positive twice underwent a qPCR test using QIAampMinElute Virus Spin kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) performed according to the manufacturer's recommended protocol. 2- Investigators measured blood sugar levels for each patient using ACCU-CHEK kits(finger stick sugar level measurement) 3- Measured systolic blood pressure for each patient was measured using mercury meters. 4-for all patients investigators obtained full medical history regarding the presence or absence of chronic diabetes, chronic hypertension, coronary artery disease, kidney impairment with dialysis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 5- for all patients investigators listed age, gender, and body mass index. 66121 patients were negative for HCV and 4852 were positive for HCV. Investigators measured the association between HCV presence, high blood sugar levels and high systolic blood pressure. It is supposed that this is the largest study in the world that examined both associations. In a word, this study was responding to a specific question: is hepatitis c virus presence is associated with high blood pressure or high sugar level or both or not associated???

Conditions

• Hepatitis C, Acute
• Diabetes
• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	BIOLINE HCV kits	We used BIOLINE HCV kits to detect the presence of HCV antibodies in stick blood samples of all recruited patients.
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	ACCU-CHEK kits	For all patients, we measured random blood sugar levels by stick blood samples using ACCU-CHEK kits.
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	ErKameter 3000 mercury manometer	For all patients, we measured systolic blood pressure using ErKameter 3000 mercury manometer.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2019-01-31
• First posted: 2019-02-15
• Last updated: 2021-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study