Adverse Drug Effects

Preexisting Psychiatric Problems Exacerbate Interferon Side Effects

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 12th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- Hepatitis C virus patients with psychiatric problems experience more side effects and have greater difficulty coping with side effects when they begin to take interferon, researchers say.

This finding, based on a study of a veteran population infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), was reported in the American Journal of Gastroenterology by medical investigators at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

S.B. Ho et al. looked at adverse effects, treatment response, and compliance with taking therapy in 33 patients with chronic hepatitis C. Each patient began an initial dosage of...

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