Hepatitis C virus eradication with directly acting antivirals improves health-related quality of life and psychological symptoms

Figure 1 Comparison between Short-Form-36 domains of controls and patients before and after hepatitis C virus eradication. HCV: Hepatitis C virus; DAAs: Directly acting antivirals; MCS: Mental component summary; PCS: Physical Component Summary.

Figure 2 Pearson’s correlations between each neuropsychological test and mental component summary of Short-Form-36 at basal evaluation. MCS: Mental component summary.

Figure 3 Pearson’s correlations between the variations of Zung-Self Depression Rating Scale, Toronto-Alexithymia Scale-20, Spielberg State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y1 and Spielberg State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y2 and the variation of mental component summary before and after Hepatitis C virus eradication. TAS-20: Toronto-Alexithymia Scale-20; Zung-SDS: Zung-Self Depression Rating Scale; MCS: Mental component summary; STAI-Y1: Spielberg State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y1; STAI-Y2: Spielberg state-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y2.