Association between insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and duration of hepatitis C in Egyptian patients

• Main Authors: Ebtissam Zakaria (Author), Tarek Fayad (Author), Mary N Rizk (Author), Nashwa S Ghanem (Author), Maisa Kamal (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: SpringerOpen, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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Background Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects around 170 million individuals worldwide. Egypt has one of the highest prevalence of patients with HCV worldwide. A higher prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) is found in this population. Aim The aim of this work was to study the relatio...