Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Is the homeostasis model assessment of the insulin resistance score predictive of a sustained virological response in chronic hepatitis C patients?
Answer: In this series of treatment-naïve, Caucasian CHC patients at a low risk for the metabolic syndrome, HOMA-IR is not a predictor of SVR, irrespective of the HCV genotype, although it may predict RVR in genotype 3 infection.
Output (English): no