PLoS ONE (Jan 2016)

Vitamin D Status and Virologic Response to HCV Therapy in the HALT-C and VIRAHEP-C Trials.

  • Erikka Loftfield,
  • Thomas R O'Brien,
  • Ruth M Pfeiffer,
  • Charles D Howell,
  • Ron Horst,
  • Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson,
  • Stephanie J Weinstein,
  • Demetrius Albanes,
  • Timothy R Morgan,
  • Neal D Freedman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166036
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 11
p. e0166036

Abstract

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Higher vitamin D status was not beneficially associated with responses to therapy; if anything, patients with higher vitamin D concentrations were less likely to attain SVR. Our data do not support a role for vitamin D supplementation as an adjuvant therapy for HCV.