Hepatitis C virus core antigen, an earlier and stronger predictor on sustained virological response in patients with genotype 1 HCV infection

Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics for patients with sustained virological response (SVR) and non-sustained virological response (N-SVR)

Parameters	SVR	N-SVR	P
Male/female	10/6	6/10	0.325
Age (years)	41.90 ± 11.08	51.36 ± 8.31	0.019
ALT (U/L)	47.38 ± 3.65	47.27 ± 6.87	0.988
HCV RNA (log10 IU/mL)	6.39 ± 0.57	6.21 ± 1.14	0.557
HCVcAg (log10 fmol/L)	3.61 ± 0.54	3.75 ± 0.36	0.441
No. of each cohorts^a	6/3/7/5	2/6/2/1	0.057

^aThe numbers of patients in each cohorts (Y PegIFN α-2b 90 μg, 135 μg, 180 μg, and PegIFNα-2a 180 μg).

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