Comment on “Population-based screening works: Effect of integrating screening for hepatitis B and C into the general health check-up in Germany”

We read with great interest the Letter to the Editor by H üppe, Wedemeyer and Cornberg, published in November 2023, reporting on the effect of the newly introduced population-based hepatitis B and C screening in Germany.1 We thank the authors for drawing attention to this topic and strongly support the initiative to scale up screening and testing to ident ify people infected with HBV and HCV. With this letter we want to clarify to what extent surveillance data can be used to interpret the potential effects of the new hepatitis screening approach on HBV and HCV case numbers, as already described.
Source: Journal of Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research