Journal of Hepatology
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 28-34 , January 2008

Insulin resistance and response to therapy in patients infected with chronic hepatitis C virus genotypes 2 and 3

  • Hossein Poustchi

      Affiliations

    • Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
    • Digestive Disease Research Centre, Shartati Hospital, Medical Science/University of Tehran, Iran
    • ,
  • Francesco Negro

      Affiliations

    • Divisions of Clinical Pathology and Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Jason Hui

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • Ian Homer Y. Cua

      Affiliations

    • Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
    • ,
  • Laura Rubbia Brandt

      Affiliations

    • Divisions of Clinical Pathology and Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
    • ,
  • James G. Kench

      Affiliations

    • Department of Tissue Pathology, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
    • ,
  • Jacob George

      Affiliations

    • Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 298457705; fax: +61 296357582.

Received 20 March 2007 ,Revised 4 July 2007 ,Accepted 5 July 2007.

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☆ The authors declared that Schering Plough and Roche have provided unrestricted grants to support the units. This study is supported in part by Grants 219282 and 358398 from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Grant DK98017 from the National Institutes of Health, USA, Grant No. 3200B0-103727/1 from the Swiss National Science Foundation and by a research award from the Leenaards Foundation (Lausanne, Switzerland). They did not receive any funding from Roche or Schering Plough to undertake this research study.

PII: S0168-8278(07)00508-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2007.07.026

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 28-34 , January 2008

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