Aug 12
Having a Tattoo Associated With Tripled Risk of Dangerous Disease
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:04 — admin
The global fad for tattoos, particularly among young people, is growing -- and along with it the risk of acquiring hepatitis C, according to a multinational study.A systematic review of 124 published studies from 30 countries found
that people with tattoos were almost three times as likely to have
hepatitis C as those without tattoos, according to Dr. Jane Buxton of
the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver and
colleagues.
But in some subgroups -- particularly non-injection drug users -- the
odds of having the virus were almost six-fold, Buxton and colleagues
wrote online in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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