Question 22 / 27:  A 46 year old woman is rejected for a life insurance policy due to abnormal liver function tests

and a positive hepatitis C antibody. She seeks your expertise and asks about the natural history of

hepatitis C.

Which of the following best describes the natural history of hepatitis C?

A  25% of patients will develop chronic hepatitis
B  More than 70% of patients will develop chronic hepatitis
C  5% of patients will develop cirrhosis
D  80% of patients will develop cirrhosis
E  Most patients will require liver transplantation
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Attribution:  Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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