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

• প্রধান লেখক: Ebtissam Zakaria (লেখক), Tarek Fayad (লেখক), Mary N Rizk (লেখক), Nashwa S Ghanem (লেখক), Maisa Kamal (লেখক)
• বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
• প্রকাশিত: SpringerOpen, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• বিষয়গুলি: 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...