Racial/ethnic differences in spontaneous HCV clearance in HIV infected and uninfected women.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Among individuals without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), African Americans have lower spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) than Caucasians, and women have higher clearance than men. Few studies report racial/ethnic differences in acute HCV in HIV infected, or Hispanic women. We examined racial/ethnic differences in spontaneous HCV clearance in a population of HCV mono- and co-infected women.

Methods

We conducted a cross sectional study of HCV seropositive women (897 HIV infected and 168 HIV uninfected) followed in the US multicenter, NIH-funded Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), to determine the association of race/ethnicity with spontaneous HCV clearance, as defined by undetectable HCV RNA at study entry.

Results

Among HIV and HCV

SUBMITTER: Sarkar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3663918 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature