Successful antiviral therapy is associated with a decrease of serum prohepcidin in chronic hepatitis C

Table 2 Correlations between baseline serum prohepcidin (ng/mL), ALT activity, HCV-RNA, and iron metabolism parameters in studied population

	Genotype 1		Genotype 3a
	R	P	R	P
HCV-RNA (cp/mL)	-0.09	0.620	0.08	0.750
ALT (U/L)	0.38	0.0401	-0.06	0.810
Fe (μg/dL)	-0.06	0.510	-0.48	0.0401
Hgb (g/dL)	-0.03	0.850	0.18	0.420
TIBC (μg/dL)	0.07	0.730	-0.11	0.640
Ferritin (ng/mL)	0.63	0.0011	0.25	0.330

¹Statistical significance calculated by use of spearman rank test.