Mental, physical health, fatigue worsened by antiviral therapy, anemia in HCV
August 21, 2013
Patients with chronic hepatitis C, particularly those with anemia, experienced significantly impaired mental and physical health and worsened fatigue symptoms while on antiviral therapy, with improvement coming at treatment completion in a recent study.
Researchers evaluated health-related quality of life (HRQL) and fatigue symptoms in 59 patients with HCV/HIV coinfection before, during and after therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Physical and mental health was measured via the Short Form (36) Health Survey; fatigue was assessed by the Fatigue Severity Scale.
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