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)-α and ribavirin (RBV).METHODS: We conduc