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Vitamin D status does not predict sustained virologic response or fibrosis stage in chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 infection.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Mar 2013
Kitson Matthew T, Dore Gregory J, George Jacob, Button Peter, McCaughan Geoffrey W, Crawford Darrell H G, Sievert William, Weltman Martin D, Cheng Wendy S, Roberts Stuart K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: The relationship between vitamin D status and response to antiviral therapy and liver histology in hepatitis C virus genotype 1 (HCV-1) infection remains unclear, with studies to date yielding inconsistent results and failing to use reference assay methodology. We therefore analyzed pre-treatment 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] level, using reference liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry...
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