Diabetes Is the Main Factor Accounting for the High Ferritin Levels Detected in Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Response to Sebastiani et al.
- Albert Lecube, MD1,
- Cristina Hernández, MD1,
- Joan Genescà, MD2 and
- Rafael Simó, MD1
- 1Diabetes Research Unit, Endocrinology Division, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- 2Liver Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- Address correspondence to Dr. Rafael Simó, Diabetes Research Unit, Endocrinology Division, Hospital General Vall d’Hebron, Pg. Vall d’Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: rsimo{at}vhebron.net
After reading the comments by Sebastiani et al. (1) on our article (2) regarding the association between diabetes and ferritin in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we would like to make the following comments. In contrast to our results, the authors did not find any relationship between serum ferritin levels and glucose abnormalities in HCV-infected patients. However, it should be noted that the number of patients included in our …
