Hepatitis D risk factors

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Risk Factors

• Injection drug users
• Men who have sex with men
• Hemodialysis patients
• Sex contacts of infected persons

Health care and public safety workers Infants born to infected mothers (very rare) [2]