Female Sex Hormones Pattern and Its Relation to Disease Severity and Treatment in Pre- and Postmenopausal Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus (Genotype 4) Infection

Table 2

The relation between fibrosis and hormonal levels in reproductive aged and menopausal patients.

Hormones	Fibrosis stage		Activity grade		Fibrosis stage		Activity grade
	≤F2	>F2	<A2	≥A2	≤F2	>F2	<A2	≥A2
	(RA)				(M)
(%)	16 (72.7%)	6 (27.3%)	11 (50%)	11 (50%)	9 (40.9%)	13 (59.1%)	8 (36.4%)	14 (63.6%)
E2 (pg/mL)	139.4 ± 50.72	68.25 ± 37.25	142.67 ± 49.31	97.3 ± 56.54	127.6 ± 44.3	72.3 ± 34.17	113.96 ± 52.29	84.04 ± 41.47
TT (ng/dL)	19.95 ± 1.55	22.0 ± 4.89	21.6 ± 3.67	19.4 ± 1.18	22.1 ± 3.67	38.23 ± 13.09	21.13 ± 3.18	37.64 ± 12.68
PRG (ng/mL)	1.30 ± 0.82	0.97 ± 0.54	1.5 ± 0.8	0.90 ± 0.51	0.407 ± 0.18	0.717 ± 0.34	0.33 ± 0.14	0.74 ± 0.30

Statistically significant difference ().