Hepatitis C Therapy
Findings advance knowledge in hepatitis c therapy research
Published in Health and Medicine Week, July 11th, 2005
Study 1: Chinese patients with HCV genotype 1 respond better to pegylated interferon.
"Previous studies in Caucasian patients showed treatment of chronic hepatitis C with pegylated interferon/ ribavirin was well tolerated, and produced a higher response rate especially in genotype 1 infections. However, it is unknown whether this conclusion can be extrapolated to patients with Chinese ethnic origin," scientists writing in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis report.
"A total of 153 patients with biopsy-proven chronic hepatitis C were...
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