Article
Insulin resistance impairs viral dynamics independently of ethnicity or genotypes.
Journal of clinical gastroenterology - 1 Mar 2012
Eslam Mohammed, Aparcero Reyes, Mousa Youssef I, Grande Lourdes, Shaker Yehia, Ali Ahmed, Del Campo José A, Khattab Mahmoud A, Romero-Gomez Manuel
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Data concerning the influence of insulin resistance (IR) and ethnicity on early phases of viral kinetics after initiation of peginterferon plus ribavirin in treatment-naive, chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients are limited. METHODS: A total of 263 nondiabetic CHC patients treated with peginterferon plus ribavirin were enrolled for analysis from an Egyptian and Spanish center. IR was evaluated by...
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