Abstract
Background/Aims Approximately two billion people worldwide have been infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and about 350 million live with chronic infection. Over half of all liver cancer cases in the world are attributable to chronic, or persistent, HBV infection. Of US residents chronically infected with HBV, 40% to 70% are foreign-born immigrants, mainly Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs). Disparity by race exists for APIs which makeup approximately 4% of the U.S. population and more than 2% of these races are affected with chronic HBV. The purpose of this study is to investigate the demographic differences between the foreign-born and US-born HBV infected APIs of Kaiser Permanente, Hawai’i (KPHI).
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