Is age, and race a predictor on having a successful treatment?

Is age, and race a predictor on having a successful treatment?

[willbb]

This was just released today in the NEJM..as it pertains to ethnicity in a Boce trial.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1010494?query=featured_home

[FlGuy]

Probably the most significant factor is genotype.

[happyhepper2010]

i know :)

[FlGuy]

The longest part of the article is the section which reports fess and support paid to the doctors and researchers. Go figure.

[meakea]

It has been my understanding from articles that I have read in the past that, yes, both age and race play a part.  Here's one article I found:

http://hepatitis-c.healthytreatment.com/do-african-americans-react-worse-to-hepatitis-c-treatment/

[willbb]

  Age would certainly play a part in women ,as studies have shown premenopausal women have a better response to therapy that postmenopausal.