Table 3 Correlation between serum HBV RNA and laboratory parameters in different phases of chronic HBV infection
From: Serum HBV RNA quantification: useful for monitoring natural history of chronic hepatitis B infection
|  | IT (n = 35) | EPIA (n = 121) | ICH (n = 77) | ENH (n = 58) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
r | P value | r | P value | r | P value | r | P value | |
Age(year) | −0.019 | 0.916 | −0.205 | 0.024 | −0.136 | 0.240 | −0.054 | 0.689 |
ALT(U/L) | 0.051 | 0.773 | 0.220 | 0.015 | 0.123 | 0.286 | 0.489 | 0.000 |
AST(U/L) | 0.286 | 0.096 | 0.231 | 0.011 | 0.336 | 0.003 | 0.546 | 0.000 |
HBeAg(S/CO) | −0.215 | 0.214 | 0.291 | 0.001 | / | / | / | / |