Chronic hepatitis C: Treat or wait? Medical decision making in clinical practice

Table 3 Treatment and sustained virological response rates vs socio-economic problems and concomitant diseases

Characteristics	Treatment rate %	SVR %	n
Drug abuse absent and employed without psychiatric disease or HIV co-infection	58.2	52.7	4382
Drug abuse absent and employed without psychiatric disease	58.2	52.4	4560
Drug abuse absent and employed	57.1	52.6	4929
Drug abuse absent	49.2	49.6	10 839
Drug abuse present	32.0	49.9	3160
Drug abuse present and unemployed	29.1	51.6	2203
Drug abuse present and unemployed with psychiatric disease	25.1	50.8	470
Drug abuse present and employed with psychiatric disease and HIV co-infection	7.1	0.0	56

HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus.