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Reports outline hepatitis B virus therapy study findings from Chiba University

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 17th, 2008

A report, 'Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance in patients with chronic hepatitis C: comparison with hepatitis B virus-infected and hepatitis C virus-cleared patients,' is newly published data in Liver International. "Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and development of diabetes mellitus (DM) or insulin resistance (IR) in comparison with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and eradication of HCV infection by interferon treatment. This study consisted of 952 outpatients, including 544 HCV-infected (HCV+chronic), 286 HBV-infected (HBV+chronic) and 122 patients whose HCV was cleared by interferon treatment (HCV+cleared)...

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