Pathogenicity of GB virus C on virus hepatitis and hemodialysis patients

Table 5 Comparison of biochemistry characteristics between chronic hepatitis B patients with or without GBV-C infection at the 6-month follow-up

Group	n	A/G	ALT/IU·L-1	AST/IU·L-1	TBil/μmol·L-1
(1) HBV DNA(+)	14	1.74 ± 0.19	93.29 ± 60.67	29.14 ± 13.87	7.64 ± 5.47
GBV-C RNA(+)
(2) HBV DNA (+)	58	1.73 ± 0.18	62.33 ± 41.67	27.68 ± 11.99	6.10 ± 2.09
GBV-C RNA (-)
(3) HBV DNA (-)	7	1.61 ± 0.11	30.00 ± 7.80	21.57 ± 8.18	7.57 ± 3.41
GBV-C RNA (+)
(4) HBV DNA (-)	16	1.64 ± 0.14	32.65 ± 17.01	26.65 ± 11.96	7.71 ± 2.76
GBV-C RNA (-)

Significant difference (P < 0.05) was found only in ALT between group 1 and group 3, group 2 and group 4. No significant dif-ference (P > 0.05) was found in other biochemistry characteris-tics among the 4 groups.