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A genetic validation study reveals a role of vitamin D metabolism in the response to interferon-alfa-based therapy of chronic hepatitis C. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundTo perform a comprehensive study on the relationship between vitamin D metabolism and the response to interferon-α-based therapy of chronic hepatitis C.Methodology/principal findingsAssociations between a functionally relevant polymorphism in ...
Christian M Lange +20 more
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VITAMIN D LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC HEPATITIS C, AND HEALTH CONTROLS [PDF]
Journal of IMAB, 2019 Purpose: Hepatitis B virus and Hepatitis C virus infection are the most common cause of acute and chronic hepatitis. Over the past decade, numerous studies reported that patients with chronic liver disease, especially HCV-positive and HBV-positive ...
Biljana Ilkovska +3 more
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Vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D therapy in chronic hepatitis C
Annals of Hepatology, 2013 Vitamin D has immunomodulatory properties, exerts an anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) effect in vitro and improves response to interferon-based therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). Low serum levels of 25(OH) vitamin D [25(OH)D] are frequently found in CHC patients and seem to be related to more advanced stages of liver fibrosis.
José M. Ladero +10 more
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Hepatitis D Virus Pathogenesis: A Sense of Complications
VirusesHepatitis D virus (HDV) is a satellite RNA virus of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infecting an estimated 12 million people worldwide. Chronic HDV infection is causing the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis, leading to a rapid progression of ...
Yann Haennel +2 more
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Comparative analysis of vitamin D contents in patients with chronic viral hepatitis C and healthy.
Medičnì Perspektivi, 2020 From scientific literature it is known that vitamin D helps maintain the most important functions of the immune system, there is evidence of its role in inflammatory and metabolic diseases of the liver, including infection with hepatitis C.
L. L. Shostakovych-Koretskaya +5 more
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The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: Genomic studies of hepatitis B virus (HBV) diversity are becoming increasingly significant to understand how HBV mutations interact with a wide spectrum of clinical and pathological disorders. Objective: This study focused on identifying HBV
Hiba T. Hussain +2 more
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Viruses, 2022 Hepatitis D is the most severe viral hepatitis. Hepatitis D virus (HDV) has a very small RNA genome with unique biological properties. It requires for infection the presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and is transmitted parenterally, mainly by ...
Gian Paolo Caviglia +2 more
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Biomedicines, 2023 Hepatitis B infection is a major public health problem globally leading to chronic liver disease and death, which are influenced by various environmental and host factors including serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels.
Anindita Banerjee +4 more
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ETIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS IN THE KHOREZM REGION OF UZBEKISTAN
Байкальский медицинский журнал, 2023 A study of the etiological structure of chronic viral hepatitis is presented, taking into account the assessment of the stage of the pathological process and the genotypic affiliation of pathogens in the Khorezm region of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Shavkat R. Yusupov +4 more
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Ifluence of seasonity on vitamin D level in patients with HCV infection and healthy people
Medičnì Perspektivi, 2021 According to WHO, about 150-200 million people are currently infected with the HCV virus worldwide. Recently, in the professional literature, the number of publications on the role of vitamin D in patients with viral hepatitis C has increased as vitamin ...
M.A. Nikolaychuk +3 more
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