Severity of Hepatitis C Virus (Genotype-3) Infection Positively Correlates with Circulating MicroRNA-122 in Patients Sera

Table 1

Patients clinical profile.

Factors	CHC patients group; (𝑁=25)	Healthy control group; (𝑁=25)
Sex (male/female)	19/6	16/9
Age (years)	38.08±10.81	32.53±9.63
Anti-HCV antibody (+/−)	25/0	0/25
HCV genotype-3 (+/−)	25/0	0/25
HCV viral load (IU/mL)	6.18±13.59 (10^6)
ALT (IU/L)^1	86.56±46.90
AST (IU/L)^1	82.48±48.76
Serum bilirubin (mg%)^2	0.79±0.69
ALP (IU)^3	227.48±118.20
Albumin (gm%)^4	4.21±1.02
Globulin (gm%)^5	3.55±0.57

[Reference values: ¹(2–40 IU/L), ²(0.2–0.8 mg%), ³(98–306 IU), ⁴(3.5–5 gm%), and ⁵(2.0–3.0 gm%)].