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For example, patients with cirrhosis have a high severity of illness and poor prognosis when admitted to the ICU [ 19, 20, 21].
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a slowly progressive disease that affects approximately 2.7 million persons in the United States [ 1 ] . Most persons with hepatitis C are asymptomatic, although some experience fatigue or other nonspecific symptoms [ 2 3 ] . The minority progress to cirrhosis, liver cancer, or liver failure [ 4 5 6 ] . Both physicians and patients must weigh the immediate harm associated with treatment for HCV including side effects and cost of therapy against potential future benefits when making treatment decisions.
The median preference value for HS1-No Symptoms, No Cirrhosis was 88% (interquartile range 75%-95%) corresponding to a 12% reduction from life without hepatitis C. In contrast the median preference value for HS5-Severe Symptoms, Cirrhosis was only 18% (interquartile range 8%-30%).
Moderate or severe liver disease was defined as cirrhosis with portal hypertension, or hepatic failure with coma or encephalopathy within the preceding 6 months.
Analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in female patients with multiple head and neck cancers shows that distinct tumors arise from regional clonal growths of phenotypically normal, mutated preneoplastic cells [ 3 4 5 ] , a phenomenon similar to that also observed in liver cancer patients with cirrhosis [ 6 ] . Long-term smoking and alcohol abuse are strongly associated with these clonal growths in the upper aerodigestive tract (reviewed in [ 7 ] ).
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