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Equally poor outcomes to pegylated interferon-based therapy in African Americans and Hispanics with chronic hepatitis C infection.
Journal of clinical gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2010
Satapathy Sanjaya K, Lingisetty Chandra Sekhar, Proper Shawnette, Chaudhari Shobhana, Williams Susan
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Treatment response to pegylated interferon based regimen is different between African Americans and Whites, but little comparable data is available comparing Hispanics and African Americans. PATIENTS: We retrospectively evaluated the rate of success in the treatment completion and response to peginterferon alpha-2a or alpha-2b plus ribavirin in 103 (male:female-69:34) hepatitis C virus...
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