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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hepatol. 2010 Nov 23;55(1):76–85. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.10.033

Table 2.

Adherence to PEG-IFN among treated HCV and HCV/HIV infected participants with recently acquired HCV infection (n=109)

Overall
(n=109)
HCV
(n=74)
HCV/HIV
(n=35)
PEG-IFN 80/80 adherence, n (%) 89 (82) 57 (77) 32 (91)
Mean on-treatment PEG-IFN adherence, (%) 99.4 98.0 99.5
Missed doses of PEG-IFN, n (%)
No missed doses 94 (86) 63 (85) 31 (89)
1 missed dose 10 (9) 6 (8) 4 (11)
2-5 missed doses 5 (5) 5 (7) 0 (0)
Number of weeks of PEG-IFN therapy, n (%)
24 weeks 76 (70) 50 (68) 26 (74)
20 to 23 weeks 7 (6) 3 (4) 4 (11)
10 to 19 weeks 15 (14) 11 (15) 4 (11)
0 to 9 weeks 11 (10) 10 (14) 1 (3)
Weeks on PEG-IFN therapy
Mean, n (SD) 20 (6.9) 19.6 (7.7) 22.1 (4.4)
Median, n (IQR) 24 (20-24) 24 (18-24) 24 (22-24)
PEG-IFN dose-modification 5 (5) 4 (5) 1 (3)

SD=standard deviation; IQR=interquartile range.