Clinical Study
Measuring the Response of Extrahepatic Symptoms and Quality of Life to Antiviral Treatment in Patients with Hepatitis C
Table 1
Background information.
| Background variable | % () |
| Age | | Mean = 46 | | Gender | | Male | 59 (69) | Female | 41 (48) | Ethnicity | | White British | 79 (90) | White Irish | 3 (4) | White other | 12 (14) | Other | 6 (6) | In employment | 59 (68) | Transmission mode | | Intravenous drugs | 77.8 (49) | Blood transfusion | 3.2 (2) | Homosexual sex | 6.3 (4) | Heterosexual sex | 1.6 (1) | Other | 8 (7) | Missing | (55) | Genotype | | 1 | 36.5 (19) | 2 | 3.8 (2) | 3 | 26.9 (14) | 2, 3 | 30.8 (16) | 4 | 1.9 (1) | Missing | (66) | SVR | | Achieved | 67 (76) | Not achieved | 33 (38) | No record | (4) | Arthritis | | Osteoarthritis | 5 (6) | Rheumatoid | 5 (6) | Unknown | 5 (6) | Other | 2.5 (3) | Positive for cryoglobulins | 5.9 (7) | Inflammatory bowel disease | 5.9 (7) |
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