Table 1.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants.

	Variable	Mean ± SD or N (%)
Demographics	Age (Mean ± SD)	53.5 ± 15.8
	Female, N (%)	13(44.8%)
	METAVIR 3/4, N (%)	8(27.6%)
Genotype N (%)	1B	19 (65.5%)
	1A	2 (6.9%)
	2	1 (3.5%)
	3	7 (24.1%)
Laboratory at baseline	ALT U/L (Mean ± SD)	56.1 ± 33.4
	Total Bilirubin mg/dL (Mean ± SD)	0.65 ± 0.5
	Albumin g/dL (Mean ± SD)	4.4 ± 0.3
	Hb g/dL (Mean ± SD)	14.2 + 1.4
	PLT Count 106/mm6 (Mean ± SD)	53.5 ± 15.7
	HCV RNA IU/mL (Mean ± SD)	2.6 × 106 ± 3.2 × 105

SD, standard deviation; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; Hb, hemoglobin; PLT, platelets; HCV, hepatitis C virus; RNA, ribonucleic acid.