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SUBMITTER: Scalioni LP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5535935 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scalioni Letícia de Paula LP da Silva Allan Peres AP Miguel Juliana Custódio JC Espírito Santo Márcia Paschoal do MPD Marques Vanessa Alves VA Brandão-Mello Carlos Eduardo CE Villela-Nogueira Cristiane Alves CA Lewis-Ximenez Lia Laura LL Lampe Elisabeth E Villar Livia Melo LM
International journal of molecular sciences 20170721 7
The role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in insulin resistance (IR) is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of amino acid (aa) substitutions in the <i>core</i> region of HCV according to IR and to identify clinical and laboratory associations. Ninety-two treatment-naive HCV patients were recruited to determine laboratory data and blood cell count. IR was determined using Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA) index where IR was defined as HOMA ≥2. HCV RNA load and geno ...[more]