Hepatitis risk factors

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

Risk Factors

Hepatitis can occur in patients of any age group. The risk varies from one type of hepatitis to another.

High risk population include:

• Infants born to mothers with hepatitis B or C
• Children in daycare centers
• Men who have sex with men
• People who have anal sex
• People who have multiple sex partners
• Injecting drugs, and using shared needles
• Job that involves contact with bodily fluids, such as:
  • Childcare workers who change diapers or toilet train children
  • First aid or emergency worker
  • Funeral director
  • Healthcare workers
  • Dentist
• Receiving transfusion of blood and blood products which are not screened for the virus.
• Traveling to a country where hepatitis A or E is common or where there is poor sanitation.