Given a passage with a question and an answer to that question, classify if the answer actually answers the question into 'yes' or 'no'. Output 'yes' if the answer answers the question and output 'no' if the answer does not answer the question.
Q: Question: Does pre-treatment with prednisolone improve the efficacy of subsequent alpha interferon therapy in chronic hepatitis C?
Answer: Prednisolone administration and withdrawal induced a rebound in ALT activity and a decrease in HCV-RNA serum concentration in about one third of the patients with chronic hepatitis C. However, these changes did not enhance the effectiveness of subsequent alpha interferon therapy.
A:
no