Demographic characteristics for chronic hepatitis C patients after therapy, and for those participants with spontaneous virus clearance of HCV included in this study.

aUnless otherwise specified, mean (SD) are presented.bp2 test.cComparisons between SVR and NSVR based on the Mann-Whitney test. Viral load was measured differently between cohorts, so the data are presented simply as a statistical comparison within cohorts.NA, not available; NS, not significant.