{"id":13142,"date":"2024-11-01T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/?page_id=13142"},"modified":"2024-11-26T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:56:11","slug":"hcv-but-that-is-now-easy-to-cure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/hepc\/hcv-but-that-is-now-easy-to-cure","title":{"rendered":"What is hepatitis C?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/files\/2009\/06\/liver.png\" alt=\"Liver\" width=\"137\" height=\"190\" \/><\/h2>\n<p><b>Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>HCV is mainly in blood but it also gets into liver cells. This can cause inflammation and scarring in the liver.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The scarring is called fibrosis when it is mild and cirrhosis when it is more serious. Serious scarring makes it difficult for the liver to work well.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, it takes many years before HCV causes liver damage, but sometimes this can happen more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>HIV increases the risk and rate of liver damage from HCV.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HCV drugs (DAAs) have the potential to prevent (and sometimes partially reverse) serious fibrosis and cirrhosis. They can cure HCV in nearly everyone.<\/p>\n<p>As more people are diagnosed and treated, HCV will become much more rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).\u00a0 HCV is mainly in blood but it also gets into liver cells. This can cause inflammation and scarring in the liver.\u00a0 The scarring is called fibrosis when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18079,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13142\/revisions\/18079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}