Prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in patients of Chronic Hepatitis C.
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Vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D therapy in chronic hepatitis C.
BACKGROUND 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. The study aims to establish the incidence of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Professional Medical Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2071-7733,1024-8919
DOI: 10.29309/tpmj/2019.27.01.3094