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Author Topic: Those Not Cured by Hep C Treatment See Worse Health-Related Quality of Life  (Read 5776 times)

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People with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who undergo direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment for the virus but are not cured experience a decline in their health-related quality of life, Reuters Health reports.

Publishing their findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers analyzed data on 242 people who participated in clinical trials of hep C therapies and were not cured. The members of this cohort had all entered a posttreatment registry in which they were monitored for long-term health-related quality-of-life trends. The investigators used an assessment tool called the Short Form-36 instrument (SF-36), which includes eight domains of health-related quality of life as well as a mental and a physical component summary score.

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