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dc.contributor.advisorKileng, Hege
dc.contributor.advisorKamycheva, Elena
dc.contributor.authorGieselmann, Jonas Torsvik
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-02T10:22:22Z
dc.date.available2020-06-02T10:22:22Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-01
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study was primarily to describe the vitamin D status in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, followed up at the University Hospital of Northern Norway in Tromsø (UNN), and to study if there were any associations between vitamin D status, the level of liver enzymes, viral load, liver fibrosis, liver inflammation and sustained virological response to treatment. Additionally, we would provide a more general description of the HCV infected population in our region. This was a retrospective cohort study, including 107 patients. The mentioned parameters were reclaimed from the computer journal system of UNN, and subsequently plotted in a spread sheet. We gave both a demographic description and did statistical analysis, using the computer program SPSS. We found the HCV infected patients to have somewhat lower levels of vitamin D than the general Northern Norwegian population. Higher degree of inflammation tended to be related to lower levels of vitamin D, but not of statistically significance. Vitamin D and IL28B did show no significant correlation. The level of vitamin D is of interest for HCV infected patients, possibly positively influencing the progress of disease and effect of treatment. Therefore prevention of vitamin D deficiency in this group is of importance.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18417
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2015 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDMED-3950en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750en_US
dc.subjectHepatitt Cen_US
dc.subjectVitamin Den_US
dc.titleSerum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in hepatitis C patients in Northern Norway. A retrospective cohort study.en_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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