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<Articles JournalTitle="Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2383-4196</Issn>
      <Volume>6</Volume>
      <Issue>1</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>22</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Prevalence and Distribution of Hepatitis C Virus in Iranian Drug User: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Study</title>
    <FirstPage>72</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>80</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Alireza</FirstName>
        <LastName>Najimi-Varzaneh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mohammad</FirstName>
        <LastName>Gholami-Fesharaki</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>04</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>06</Month>
        <Day>02</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Context: Hepatitis C, as a major public health problem, has serious complications and drug users are&#xA0;the highest risk group for it.
Objectives: As the importance of this subject, the current study has been done to estimate the pooled prevalence&#xA0; and distribution of hepatitis c virus in Iranian Drug User.
Evidence Acquisition: Articles were identified through international searching databases including&#xA0;PubMed, Scopus, Elsevier, Google Scholar and Web of Science and Iranian scientific information&#xA0;database (SID), Health. barakatkns, IranDoc, Civilica and MagIran. We reviewed systematically all&#xA0;studies reporting the prevalence of HCV Iranian Drug User.
Results: 227 records were identified by the electronic search, of which 62 studies were identified as relevant&#xA0; papers which were meta-analyzed for the pooled HCV prevalence. Overall, prevalence of HCV&#xA0; was 42.01 %( 36.83%-47.20%) in Iranian drug user.
Conclusion: Our meta-analysis study showed that HCV prevalence is high in drug users in Iran. With respect to the high prevalence of Hepatitis C among Drug User, ongoing preventive actions for this group are recommended.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jbe.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jbe/article/view/330</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
