Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of chronic hepatitis C patients according to treatment outcome

WBC, white blood cell count; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; PEG-IFN, peginterferon; HCV RNA, hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid;SVR, sustained virologic response.

^*Mean ± standard deviation.

^†Median (interquartile range).

^‡The genotype non-1 group included 77, 2, and 1 patients with genotypes 2, 3, and 6, respectively.

^§One of the HCV genotype non-1 patients had only a qualitative HCV RNA result in the initial dataset.