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Black patients with chronic hepatitis C have a lower sustained viral response rate than non-Blacks with genotype 1, but the same with genotypes 2/3, and this is not explained by more frequent dose reductions of interferon and ribavirin*.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Apr 2006
Bräu N, Bini E J, Currie S, Shen H, Schmidt W N, King P D, Ho S B, Cheung R C, Hu K-Q, Anand B S, Simon F R, Aytaman A, Johnson D P, Awad J A, Ahmad J, Mendenhall C L, Pedrosa M C, Moseley R H, Hagedorn C H, Waters B, Chang K-M, Morgan T R, Rossi S J, Jeffers L J, Wright T L
Abstract excerpt
In previous hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment studies, Black patients not only had a lower sustained viral response (SVR) rate to interferon and ribavirin (RBV) than non-Black patients but also a higher frequency of HCV genotype 1 (GT-1) infection. The aim of this community-based study was to det...
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