[Natural history of chronic hepatitis C]

Acute hepatitis chronic C is usually anicteric and asympntomatic. Chronic viraemia occurs in 85-90% of infected individual. 70% of whom develop some degree of chronic liver injury and face the potential risk of progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Approximately 20% of individual with chronic hepatitis C infection develop cirrhosis within 20 years.