Table 1.
The expression of AIM2 is high in HBVGN
| Group | Tissue | n | Age | Gender M(%) |
AIM2 |
Positive rate(%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | + | ++ | +++ | ||||||
| HBV-GN |
K |
54 |
36.1 ± 12.7 |
35(64.8) |
10 |
26 |
18 |
0 |
81.4 |
| CGN |
K |
25 |
38.2 ± 15.5* |
18(72.0)** |
24 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4.0*** |
| CHB | L | 6 | 33.0 ± 8.7 | 6(100) | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - |
HBV-GN, Hepatitis B viral associated glomerulonephritis; CGN, Chronic glomerulonephritis; CHB, Chronic hepatitis B; K, kidney, L, liver; *compared with HBV-GN, (t = −1.909, p = 0.06); **compared with HBV-GN, (x2 = 0.400, p = 0.527); ***compared with HBV-GN, (x2 = 38.746, p < 0.01).