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Published in final edited form as: Antivir Ther. 2014 Jun 10;20(2):149–155. doi: 10.3851/IMP2806

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics.

	Severity of liver disease [n]	Age [yr]	HCV genotype [gen1:gen4]	Baseline HCV [log₁₀ IU/ml]
Mean (sd)	Chronic hepatitis [12]	49 (14.74)	10:2	6.39 (0.54)
Mean (sd)	Compensated cirrhosis [8]	57.0 (7.0)	8:0	6.3 (0.44)
Mean (sd)	Decompensated cirrhosis [5]	64.0 (6.0)	5:0	4.72 (0.64)
p-value^*		0.53		0.006

, p-value to reject the null hypothesis that the distribution between the three groups is the same (Kruskal-Wallis test). Individual characteristics and kinetics are shown in Table*p-value for the difference among the three patient groups (Kruskal-Wallis test).