Once you have a Hep C diagnosis, you MUST VIGILENTLY take care of your health, and get regular blood work done to check your ALT levels and Viral loads etc.

Many people just get complacent and assume that they are "just carriers' but no serious damage has been done yet.

NOT SO, PEOPLE! These little critters are eating away at your liver, silently!

START IMMEDIATELY to fortify your liver! What you do NOW early after your diagnosis, is what will keep you in good shape longer!

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Study: Liver Damage Prevalent in Asymptomatic Hepatitis C Sufferers

Hepatitis C is histologically active and progressive in up to 40% of
asymptomatic persons infected with the virus, according to a study reported in
the Dec. 17th issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Until now, the prevalence of significant liver disease in persons with
asymptomatic hepatitis C virus had been unclear. Knowing the extent to which
silent liver damage exists in HCV-infected people who exhibit no symptoms could
help doctors determine how aggressive they need to be when examining healthy
people for the infection.

The researchers studied 4,820 apparently healthy Telecom Italy employees or
their relatives who underwent screening for cardiovascular risk factors. Of
those, 85 tested positive for HCV in their blood.

About half of those had normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, a
substance that increases in people with liver disease. The rest had elevated ALT
levels.

Abnormalities were present on liver biopsy in about 20% of persons with normal
ALT levels and about 60% of persons with elevated ALT levels.

The researchers observed that people who are older and who have elevated ALT
levels are more likely to have liver damage than are those who are younger or
who have normal ALT levels.

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All My Love,
Menolly