Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 8 Comparison between each group before and after treatment and the two studied groups according to fasting insulin 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

Fasting insulin	Groups		T test
Fasting insulin	Group I	Group II	t	P value
Before
Range	4–19 mIU/L	3–14 mIU/L	6.005	<0.001*
Mean ± SD	11.480 ± 3.315 mIU/L	7.620 ± 3.109 mIU/L	6.005	<0.001*
After
Range	5–16 mIU/L	3–13 mIU/L	3.119	0.002*
Mean ± SD	9.720 ± 2.214 mIU/L	8.220 ± 2.582 mIU/L	3.119	0.002*
Differences
Mean ± SD	1.760 ± 3.255 mIU/L	− 0.600 ± 2.695 mIU/L
Paired test
Pvalue	<0.001*	0.122

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

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