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Association between phospholipids and free cholesterol in high-density lipoprotein and the response to hepatitis C treatment in Japanese with genotype 1b.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Dec 2010
Mawatari H, Yoneda M, Fujita K, Nozaki Y, Shinohara Y, Sasaki H, Iida H, Takahashi H, Inamori M, Abe Y, Kobayashi N, Kubota K, Kirikoshi H, Nakajima A, Saito S
Abstract excerpt
Pegylated interferon and ribavirin combination therapy is the standard treatment for patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC), but treatment failure can be difficult to predict. We and others have reported a relation between lipid values and sustained viral responses in patients with CHC. However, the relationship between lipid values and treatment failure has not been previously reported. The present study...
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