Screening in liver disease

Table 2 Indications for screening with anti-HCV antibody

Risk factors for which testing is indicated by all the guidelines	Risk factors for which testing is indicated by some of the guidelines	Additional risk factors for which testing is not formally recommended
Intravenous drug use (past and present)	Populations with high HCV prevalence[12,30]	Injections with reusable glass syringes[32]
Blood transfusion or transplantation before 1992 (or by known HCV positive donor)	Incarceration[12,33]	Heavy marijuana use[34]
Administration of clotting factors before 1997	Hepatitis B virus infection[12,33]	Promiscuous sex[34]
Clinical or biochemical evidence for chronic liver disease	Sharing intranasal cocaine equipment[12,33]	Poverty[34,35]
Percutaneous exposures to HCV	History of sexually transmitted disease[12,33] with genital erosions[28]	History of invasive procedures[36]
Haemophilia	Traumatic sex or vaginal sex during menstruation[14,33]	History of surgery[36]
Children born to HCV + ve mothers	Health Care Workers performing procedures at risk of transmission to the patient[37]	Beauty treatments[38]
HIV positivity
Stable sexual partners of HCV + patients