TY - BOOK AU - Tarek Ibrahim Ahmed AU - Emad Elmoatasem Bellah Amin , AU - Maher Abobakr Elamir , AU - Nagwa Kamal Eldin Roshdy , TI - Role of insulin resistance as an independent predictor in the treatment of chronic HCV / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Tarek Ibrahim Ahmed , KW - ANA KW - HCV genotype were determined KW - Liver biopsy N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 170 million persons worldwide and thus represents a viral pandemic, one that is five times as widespread as infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Chronic hepatitis C develops in up to 85% of patients with acute hepatitis C (Lauer et al.,2001). Six distinct but related HCV genotypes and multiple subtypes have been identified on the basis of molecular relatedness UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -