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. 2022 Mar 15;15(3):355. doi: 10.3390/ph15030355

Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics at baseline. Differences between cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients are reported with p-values.

Characteristics All Cases Genotypes 1 and 3 No Ecographic Cirrhosis Diagnosis Ecographic Cirrhosis Diagnosis Statistical Significance (p-Value)
n 245 201 183 62 /
Age (year), median (IQR) 51 (48–60) 53 (48–62) 54 (48–63) 51.5 (41.9–60.2) 0.125
Male sex, n (%) 188 (76.7) 156 (77.6) 135 (73.8) 53 (85.5) 0.081
BMI (Kg/m2), median (IQR) 26 (24–30) 25.7 (23.5–28.5) 26.8 (23.8–30) 25.9 (24.4–32.8) 0.297
HCV-RNA (Log IU/mL), median (IQR) 6.5 (5.7–6.9) 6.3 (5.8–6.7) 3.38 (3.07–4.07) 3.64 (3.3–4.5) 0.033
Cryoglobulinemia, n (%) 86 (35.1) 67 (33.3) 56 (30.6) 30 (48.4) 0.014
Insulin resistance, n (%) 28 (11.4) 21 (10.4) 15 (8.2) 13 (21) 0.010
Metavir score, n (%) F0–F3
F4
114 (46.5)
131 (53.5)
F0–F3
F4
88 (43.8)
113 (56.2)
F0–F3
F4
108 (59)
75 (41)
F0–F3
F4
6 (9.7)
56 (90.3)
<0.001
<0.001
Alanine-aminotransferase (IU/mL),
median (IQR)
78.5 (58.7–95.7) 80 (47–119) 86 (71.5–213) 91.5 (51–128.) 0.295
Albumin (g/L), median (IQR) 39.5 (31.7–43) 40 (36–43) 41 (39.5–45) 37.5 (32–43) <0.001
Hemoglobin (g/dL), median (IQR) 14.7 (13.6–16.4) 15.1 (14.3–16.0) 15.2 (14.2–16.1) 14.6 (13.2–15.7) <0.004
Hematocrit (%), median (IQR) 43.5 (40–46.8) 44 (41.3–46.1) 44.3 (41.7–46.6) 41.9 (38.8–45.2) <0.004
Mean corpuscular volume (fL), median (IQR) 88.7 (84.3–93.5) 89 (86.4–92.6) 89.6 (86.3–92) 88.2 (87–93) 0.038
Estimated glomerular filtration rate (mL/min), median (IQR) 104.8 (82.5–121.2) 101 (84.4–116.1) 99.3 (88.1–108) 100.2 (66.9–124) 0.638
Hepatocarcinoma n (%) 4 (1.6) 4 (2) 0 4 (6.5) NC
Patients treated with ribavirin, n (%) 85 (34.7) 61 (30.3) 67 (36.6) 18 (29) 0.281
Patients treated with daclatasvir, n (%) 62 (25.3) 55 (24.7) 39 (21.3) 23 (37.1) 0.018
Patients treated with ledipasvir, n (%) 66 (26.9) 63 (31.3) 42 (23) 24 (38.7) 0.020
Median GS-331007 plasma concentrations at 1 month of therapy (ng/mL), median (IQR) 274 (198–367) 335 (239.3–490.8) 298.5 (198.7–459.5) 243 (184–356) 0.273
Median GS-331007 intracellular concentrations at 1 month of therapy (ng/mL), median (IQR) 1118.8 (355.9–2794.5) 1126.1 (416.2–2937.9) 799.5 (10.5–2293.7) 1126.5 (690.3–5155.8) 0.086
Median GS-331007 plasma/intracellular concentrations at 1 month of therapy,
median (IQR)
0.1 (0.07–0.2) 0.21 (0.08–0.57) 0.22 (0.1–0.6) 0.14 (0.05–0.2) 0.048
Median daclatasvir concentrations at 1 month of therapy (ng/mL), median (IQR) 182 (104–294) 176.5 (93.8–277.0) 177 (88.2v314.7) 203 (149.5v294) 0.475
Median ledipasvir concentrations at 1 month of therapy (ng/mL), median (IQR) 232 (172–329) 235.5 (158.5–332.3) 227.5 (157.5–328.2) 232 (187.5–412) 0.560
Genotype, n (%) 1 158 (64.5) 1 158 (78.6) 1 119 (65) 1 39 (62.9) 0.048
2 12 (4.9) 2 10 (5.5) 2 2 (3.2)
3 43 (17.6) 3 43 (21.4) 3 26 (14.2) 3 17 (27.4)
4 32 (13.1) 4 28 (15.3) 4 4 (6.5)