Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is more common in people who have had a tattoo, research shows.
Significantly, this relationship held true in patients without other risk factors for infection, such as a history of blood transfusion or injection drug use.
"These findings have important implications for screening non-injection drug users in the United States, particularly since the prevalence of tattooing is on the rise and intravenous drug use is on the decline," say Fritz Francois (New York University, USA) and colleagues.
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