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Association of Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Fig. 1.   Frequency of diabetes in HBV-infected and HCV-infected patients with absence of cirrhosis by liver biopsy compared with those with clinical or liver biopsy evidence of cirrhosis. (A) The entire cohort (HBV vs. HCV, noncirrhotic: 9.7% vs. 18.4%, P = .02; cirrhotic: 20.5% vs. 33.1%, P = .04 ); (B) After excluding subjects with conditions predisposing to diabetes (HBV vs. HCV, noncirrhotic: 16% v. 11%, P = .26; cirrhotic: 28% vs. 15%; P = .04 ). *P < .05 for differences in frequency of diabetes in HBV cohort vs. HCV.

 

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