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 7

The relation between virological response 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)
Responders	137.91 ± 55.68; (= 7)	107.48 ± 59.92; (= 10)	116.7 ± 55.4; (= 7)	70.15 ± 43.63; (= 2)
Nonresponders	132.5 ± 38.89; (= 2)	180.00 ± 00.00; (= 1)	58.7 ± 12.4; (= 6)	113.55 ± 45.7; (= 6)
Relapsers	—; (= 0)	77.35 ± 61.73; (= 2)	—; (= 0)	97.3 ± 00.0; (= 1)

Statistically significant difference ().