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Serum lipids and their associations with viral levels and liver disease severity in a treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis C type 1-infected cohort.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Apr 2011
Ramcharran D, Wahed A S, Conjeevaram H S, Evans R W, Wang T, Belle S H, Yee L J
Abstract excerpt
In patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, steatosis and fibrosis have been shown to be inversely associated with total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Steatosis and fibrosis have also been found to be associated with triglyceride (TG) levels; though, the direction of the relationship is inconsistent across studies. The objective of this study was to assess whether viral...
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