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Higher clearance of hepatitis C virus infection in females compared with males
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- Published on: 5 April 2006
- Published on: 5 April 2006DOES GENDER, AGE, OR SCHISTOSOMIASIS COINFECTION INFLUENCE CHRONICITY OF HEPATITIS C?Show More
Dear Editor,
A paper by Bahr I, et al. in Gut reported hepatitis C virus (HCV) clearance in 4,720 residents of an Egyptian village having an HCV antibody (anti-HCV) prevalence of 19.3%.1 They reported 61.5% of those having anti-HCV also had HCV-RNA. Compared to males, females were more likely to have cleared the virus: 55.4% of anti-HCV positive females had HCV-RNA compared with 66.3% of males (P = 0.001). Howeve...
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