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Revisiting the stopping rule for hepatitis C genotype 1 patients treated with peginterferon plus ribavirin.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Yu Ming-Lung, Liu Chen-Hua, Huang Chung-Feng, Tseng Tai-Chung, Huang Jee-Fu, Dai Chia-Yen, Lin Zu-Yau, Chen Shinn-Cherng, Wang Liang-Yen, Juo Suh-Hang Hank, Chuang Wan-Long, Kao Jia-Horng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The current stopping rule for peginterferon/ribavirin therapy in hepatitis C virus genotype-1 (HCV-1) patients is based on an early virological response (EVR, defined as >2 log(10) viral reduction at treatment week 12). We aimed to explore rapid stopping rules at week 4. METHODS: We randomly allocated 528 HCV-1 patients into training and validation sets (at a 1∶2 ratio). The interleukin-28B rs8099917...
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