[Epidemiological trend of chronic hepatitis C].

Though patients with chronic hepatitis C after blood transfusion hepatitis decrease dramatically during the past decade, patients with it after non-transfused acute hepatitis C are still in existence. This means that new patients with chronic hepatitis C are on the decrease but not diminish. To the contrary, the number of patients with chronic hepatitis C is increasing. This depends on mainly dig up the undiscovered patients. These result in increasing the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.