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Vitamin D levels in Egyptian HCV patients (genotype 4) treated with pegylated interferon.
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica - 1 Mar 2013
Mohamed A A, Sabry N A, Abbassi M M, Ibrahim W A, Ali-Eldin Z A
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BACKGROUND/AIM: Vitamin D has been shown to play an important immunomodulatory role. Deficiency of vitamin D has been recently associated to the lack of response to interferon therapy in Hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infected patients. This study aims to evaluate serum level of vitamin D and verify whether circulating vitamin D has any independent role in predicting the rates of HCV virologic response after the...
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