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New Model Allows Testing of Hepatitis C Treatments
'This is the first efficient and consistent model system for HCV to be developed,' Martina Buck, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, who developed the culture, said in a university news release.

Natalie Cole Says She Has Hepatitis C
NEW YORK (AP) - Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, her publicist said in a statement Wednesday. Hepatitis C is a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood. The statement said the disease was revealed

Natalie Cole says she has hepatitis C (07/17/2008)
Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, her publicist said in a statement yesterday. Hepatitis C is a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood. The statement said the disease was revealed during a routine

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Hep C and Fatty Liver Disease Linked by Enzyme
Pittsburgh researchers have found that an enzyme known to participate in fat production is elevated in those with Hepatitis C. Further exploration of this enzyme could help physicians better predict which HCV patients are at risk of developing fatty liver...

ANA773 Resumes Race Against Hepatitis C
By reducing the dosing schedule in half, Anadys Pharmaceuticals returns to their investigation of ANA773, a Toll-Like Receptor-7 agonist prodrug. Approaching the Hepatitis C virus differently from most other contenders, Phase I clinical trials evaluating the safety, tolerability and viral-load...

Popular Illegal Drug Extra Harmful with HCV
Although scores of Americans are turning to the street drug methamphetamine to keep them awake and thin, scientists have found that it worsens Hepatitis C infection in two worrisome ways....

Association of Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

table  1.   Characteristics of All Patients in the Chronic Viral Hepatitis Cohort
Clinical Features Virological Diagnosis (%)
P
HBV* (N = 486) HCV* (N = 604)
Age (yr)dagger
  less than37 106 (28) 88 (15) <.0001
  37-43 68 (18) 122 (21)
  43-49 74 (19.5) 117 (20)
  49-61 74 (19.5) 120 (20)
  >61 57 (15) 135 (23)
Sex
  Female 108 (22) 218 (36) <.0001
  Male 375 (78) 386 (64)
Race origindagger
  White 301 (70) 481 (81) <.0001
  African 82 (19) 93 (16)
  Hispanic 7 (2) 10 (2)
  Asian 38 (9) 6 (1)
CirrhosisDagger 88 (38) 145 (41) .51
NoncirrhoticDagger 144 (62) 212 (59)
Study criteria
  (i) Exclusion 87 (18) 109 (18) 1.0
  (ii) Diabetes 64 (13) 145 (24) <.0001
  (iii) Diabetics excluded 16 (18) 37 (34) .015
NOTE. (i) Conditions predisposing to hyperglycemia: hemochromatosis (n = 3), chronic pancreatitis (n = 2), carcinoma of pancreas (n = 1), total parenteral nutrition (n = 6), corticosteroid (n = 179), and hydrochlorothiazide therapy (n = 10). (ii) Use of oral hypoglycemic medication or insulin, random glucose greater than200 mg/dL, fasting glucose greater than140 mg/dL on two occasions, or attending an endocrine clinic for diabetes.
(iii) Diabetics excluded from final analysis (% = patients in [iii] divided by [i] × 100).
* Twenty-seven patients with both chronic HBV and HCV infection were omitted from this table .
dagger gif The discrepancy in numbers compared with total population size is due to records without data.
Dagger Cirrhosis established by liver biopsy (n = 207) or presumptive diagnosis made on clinical grounds (n = 35) and diagnosis of noncirrhotic by liver biopsy (n = 367).

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