Pathogenicity of GB virus C on virus hepatitis and hemodialysis patients

Table 8 Comparison of biochemistry characteristics between chronic hepatitis C patients with or without GBV-C infection after 20 months

Group	n	ALT/IU·L-1	AST/IU·L-1
(1) HCV RNA(+)	6	72.24 ± 73.87	49.29 ± 48.49
GBV-C RNA(+)
(2) HCV RNA(+)	22	42.43 ± 39.10	32.91 ± 30.57
GBV-C RNA (-)
(3) HCV RNA (-)	7	26.98 ± 24.47	25.11 ± 19.07
GBV-C RNA(+)
(4) HCV RNA (-)	29	25.39 ± 13.16	26.74 ± 16.99
GBV-C RNA (-)

Significant difference (P < 0.05) was found only in ALT and AST between group 1 and group 3, and group 2 and group 4.