. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Hepatol Res. 2015 Mar 24;45(13):1292–1298. doi: 10.1111/hepr.12505

Table I.

Baseline characteristics of Georgian patients

Characteristics	All patients (n=72)	Genotype 1 (n=32)	Genotype 2 (n=21)	Genotype 3 (n=19)	p value
Sex

Male, n (%)	61 (84.7%)	25 (78.1%)	19 (90.5%)	17 (89.5%)	0.49
Female n (%)	11 (15.3%)	7 (21.9%)	2 (9.5%)	2 (10.5%)	0.49

Possible route of HCV acquisition

IDU	50 (69.4%)	23 (71.8%)	15 (71.4%)	12 (63.1%)	0.68
Sexual transmition	8 (11.1%)	4 (12.5%)	2 (9.5%)	2 (10.5%)
Blood transfusion	2 (2.7%)	2 (6.3%)	0	0
Unknown	12 (16.6)	3 (9.3%)	4 (19.5%)	5 (26.3%)

Baseline HCV viral load

>600 000 IU/ml, n (%)	43 (59.7%)	18 (56.3%)	15 (71.4%)	10 (52.6%)	0.42
<600 000 IU/ml, n (%)	29 (40.3%)	14 (43.7%)	6 (28.6%)	9 (47.4%)	0.42