Improvement of glucose and lipid metabolism with pegylated interferon-α plus ribavirin therapy in Chinese patients chronically infected with genotype 1b hepatitis C virus

BACKGROUND: Many epidemiological studies have demonstrated a significant association between Type 2 diabetes mellitus and abnormal lipid profiles with chronic HCV genotype 1 (GT1) infection.We examined the impact on glucose and lipid profiles of treating Chinese patients using pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN)-? and ribavirin (RBV).METHODS: We conduct

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