Table 1. Characteristics of 40 treatment naive HCV-infected patients included in the study.

Age [median(range)] years	53 (30–81)
Sex (Male/Female)	30/10
AST [median(range)] IU/L	45 (17–162)
ALT [median(range)] IU/L	62 (13–310)
γ-GT [median(range)] IU/L	40 (9–599)
HCV load [median(range)] Log10 IU/ml	6.12 (4.35–6.84)
HCV genotypes (gt1/gt4)	27/13
rs 12979860 IL28B genotypes (CC/CT/TT)	9/18/13