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 6

The relation between fibrosis and estradiol level in reproductive aged and menopausal patients.

	(RA)		(M)
Age	20–35 yrs; (= 9)	35–50 yrs; (= 13)	47–55 yrs; (= 13)	55–60 yrs; (= 9)
	E2 (pg/mL)
Fibrosis stage
≤F2	152.1 ± 43.57; (= 7)	129.6 ± 56.11; (= 9)	147.22 ± 23.13; (= 5)	103.15 ± 55.6; (= 4)
>F2	83.0 ± 36.77; (= 2)	60.88 ± 40.56; (= 4)	54.15 ± 13.48; (= 8)	101.26 ± 38.46; (= 5)
Activity grade
<A2	148.28 ± 51.51; (= 5)	138.00 ± 51.8; (= 6)	129.18 ± 48.78; (= 6)	68.30 ± 41.01; (= 2)
≥A2	122.25 ± 51.78; (= 4)	83.1 ± 57.8; (= 7)	56.31 ± 12.97; (= 7)	111.8 ± 41.01; (= 7)

Statistically significant difference ().