Pioglitazone Decreases Hepatitis C Viral Load in Overweight, Treatment Naïve, Genotype 4 Infected-Patients: A Pilot Study

BACKGROUND: Insulin resistance (IR) is induced by chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes 1 and 4 infections. It is not known whether drugs that affect IR such as Pioglitazone and Prednisone also affect serum HCV RNA titers independently of PEG-Interferon-α2/ribavirin treatment. The primary aim wa...

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Autores principales: Chojkier, Mario, Elkhayat, Hisham, Sabry, Dina, Donohue, Michael, Buck, Martina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031516

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031516

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