Colchicine reduces procollagen III and increases pseudocholinesterase in chronic liver disease

Table 2 Number of cases and number of improved patients for P-III-P and pseudocholinesterase in the different liver disease groups treated for 4.4 years with colchicine

	Number of cases	Number of improved	P vs controls
Post-hepatitis C cirrhosis	15	13	0.001
Post-hepatitis B cirrhosis	9	11	0.05
Chronic active hepatitis C	2	2	0.001
Chronic active hepatitis B	1	1	0.50
Chronic persistent hepatitis C	3	3	0.001
Alcoholic cirrhosis	5	5	0.001
Primary biliary cirrhosis	2	2	0.55

P-III-P: Type III procollagen peptide.