Interferon

Zinc Supplementation Enhances HCV Response To Therapy

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 17th, 2001

Sonia Bell-Nichols, senior medical writer - Patients with intractable chronic hepatitis C who add zinc supplementation to their interferon treatments may respond better to therapy, medical investigators in Japan say.

Chronic hepatitis C patients enrolled in a multicenter study in Japan who received zinc supplements with interferon fared better after 24 weeks of IFN treatments than patients who received IFN therapy but who did not take zinc, according to a report by Hitoshi Takagi and colleagues, Gunma University School of Medicine, Japan, in Journal of Viral Hepatitis.

Zinc supplementation reportedly prevents some viruses from...

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