Large Intestine Histopathology of Pegylated-Interferon-Alpha Plus Ribavirin Treated Chronic Hepatitis C Patients

Table 1

Comparison of epidemiological and large intestine histopathology data between untreated CHC patients and controls.

	CHC patients n = 24	Controls n = 10	P value
Gender (male/female)	14/10	6/4	1
Age (years)	37.04±14.02	46.00±13.38	.098
BMI (kg/m^2)	23.09±3.31	23.26±3.78	.903
Inflammation (%)	14/24 (58.3%)	6/10 (60%)	1
Architectural disorder and decrease of mucus production (%)	6/24 (25%)	0/10 (0%)	.148
Paneth cells (%)	4/24 (16.7%)	0/10 (0%)	.296
Lymphoid follicles	1.33±1.50	1.60±1.43	.440