In this study, the correlations among the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection-related disease and the virological response outcome in patients with HCV infection were investigated.
PLR, superior to NLR, was found to be correlated with the disease severity of HCV infection.
This study shows that dynamic continuous monitoring of PLR, rather than a single high or low PLR value at a certain time point, will contribute to disease surveillance, with an increasing tendency predicting a good virological response.