Hepatitis C Therapy

Forty-eight weeks of therapy may not be long enough for treating HCV type 1

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, April 19th, 2004

Forty-eight weeks of therapy may not be long enough for treating HCV type 1.

According to recent research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, "the therapeutic response among patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) of genotype 1 remains suboptimal. We examined a large database of patients treated with combination therapy (ribavirin plus an interferon [IFN]). We hypothesized that the longer the duration that the virus load was rendered undetectable in serum, the better would be the probability of a sustained viral response (SVR)."

"A model predicting SVR was generated; it included the following covariates: duration of...

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