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Author Topic: Curing Hepatitis C Lowers the Risk of Premature Death  (Read 5089 times)

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Curing Hepatitis C Lowers the Risk of Premature Death
« on: February 13, 2018, 10:22:26 am »
Among people without liver disease, curing hepatitis C virus (HCV) with interferon-free drug regimens is associated with a reduced risk of death, Healio reports.

Publishing their findings in the journal Hepatology, researchers analyzed data from the Veterans Affairs Hepatitis C Clinical Case Registry on 103,346 people with genotype 1, 2 or 3 of hep C who had neither HIV nor advanced liver disease. The latter category was defined as having a FIB-4 score (which measures liver disease severity) at or below 3.25 and no diagnosis of cirrhosis, liver decompensation or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, the most common form of liver cancer), or history of liver transplantation.

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