A comparative study of serum lipid contents in pre and post IFN-alpha treated acute hepatitis C patients

Table 2 Comparison of lipid profile of Control subjects with pre and post treated HCV patients

Lipid profile	Controls	HCV pretreatment patients	HCV post treatment patients
Cholesterol mg/dl	170.1 ± 9.7	149.9 ± 49.0	169.5 ± 18.8
LDL mg/dl	102.8 ± 5.2^a	74.3 ± 35.9^b	97.5 ± 2.9^c
HDL mg/dl	55.5 ± 7.8^a	37.1 ± 11.2^b	45.7 ± 8.9^c
Triglyceride mg/dl	126.5 ± 12.1	113.1 ± 54.1	123 ± 19.7
Total lipid mg/dl	543.8 ± 34.2	491.7 ± 161.0	533.2 ± 43.9
Coronary risk (HDL/LDL Ratio)	0.5 ± 0.07	0.6 ± 0.3	0.5 ± 0.1

Values represent mean ± Standard deviation of triplicates. Different alphabets on the same row indicate significant difference at p <0.05
LDL Low density lipoprotein, HDL High density lipoprotein, TAG Triglyceride

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