A Randomized Controlled Trial of Adding Fluvastatin to Standard Medical Treatment (SMT) and a Pilot Trial of Rosuvastatin and Other Statins With SMT, for Patients Infected With Chronic Hepatitis C Who Are Naive to Therapy.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Adding Fluvastatin to Standard Medical Treatment (SMT) and a Pilot Trial of Rosuvastatin and Other Statins With SMT, for Patients Infected With Chronic Hepatitis C Who Are Naive to Therapy.
Hypothesis: addition of fluvastatin will increase the cure rate of standard anti-HCV therapy. Summary: This trial is limited to veterans in Oklahoma who qualify for care with the Veterans Administration. It is a randomized control format including genotypes 1 and 3. There will also be pilot arms for HCV carriers who present for screening already on a statin, who will be allowed to stay on their current statin or switched to another statin. In all ways, standard therapy as noted on pegylated interferon and ribavirin will be given per FDA package insert.
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