for Veterans and the Public

Patients with hepatitis C often have a wide variety of blood tests requested by their doctor. In addition to tests of hepatits C and tests of the liver, you may have tests of your kidney, blood counts, thyroid and others.

It is especially important to understand these tests if you are taking hepatitis C treatments. Here we explain the meaning of some of the most common blood tests you may want to understand.

• WBC
  
• Neutrophils
  
• Hemoglobin
  
• Hematocrit
  
• Creatinine
  
• TSH
  
• Glucose
  
• Hepatitis B tests (HBsAg, HBsAb, HBcAb total, HBV DNA PCR, HBeAg
  
• AFP
  
• Antibody
  
• Hepatitis A antibody total