Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 6 Comparison between each group before and after treatment and the two studied groups according to LDL Level

From: Impact of direct-acting antiviral therapy on metabolic profiles and adiponectin serum level in different categories of patients with chronic hepatitis C infection

LDL	Groups		T test
LDL	Group I	Group II	t	P value
Before
Range	56–94 mg/dl	60–140 mg/dl	− 4.501	<0.001*
Mean ± SD	74.700 ± 9.921 mg/dl	91.140 ± 23.844 mg/dl	− 4.501	<0.001*
After
Range	59–114 mg/dl	60–128 mg/dl	− 0.166	0.869
Mean ± SD	93.300 ± 12.090 mg/dl	93.760 ± 15.491 mg/dl	− 0.166	0.869
Differences
Mean ± SD	− 18.600 ± 7.762 mg/dl	− 2.620 ± 18.147 mg/dl
Paired test
Pvalue	<0.001*	0.312

t Student’s t test, p p value for comparing between the two groups
*highly significant

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