HCV prevalence estimates among incarcerated persons.

Hofmeister identified populations with heightened HCV prevalence, including 2.1M individuals incarcerated 12/31/16(1), estimating this population's HCV prevalence at 9.5x that of householders surveyed by the National Health and Nutrition Epidemiology Survey (NHANES). Yearly, the US incarcerates 10M; subtracting 2.1M incarcerated persons leaves 7.9M in the NHANES frame who were recently released from prison/jail prior to the one-day count (3% of all US adults). National surveys face challenges-declining response rates, response bias, low participation by highly-mobile/disadvantaged populations (2)-that suggest the paper underestimated the true HCV prevalence among needy groups. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.