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Serum lipids and chronic hepatitis C genotype 4: interaction and significance.
Annals of hepatology - 1 Jan 2000
Khattab Mahmoud A, Eslam Mohammed, Aly Mayada M, Shatat Mohammed, Mousa Yousef I, Abd-Aalhalim Hesham, Aly Hanan, Shaker Yehia
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BACKGROUND & AIM: Metabolic abnormalities are common in chronic hepatitis C infection (CHC). However, the genotypic differences of these disarrangements in patients infected with CHC genotype 4 (HCV-4) and its association with liver histology and viral loads remain unknown. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We consecutively enrolled 183 HCV-4 patients and 106 healthy matched controls; to compare metabolic profiles and assess...
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