Table 3.
Point-biserial correlation coefficients between NAS-scale parameters and miRNAs in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients
| miR-197 | miR-146b | miR-10b | miR-181d | miR-34a | miR-122 | miR-99a | miR-29a | |
| Steatosis | 0.229 | 0.191 | 0.179 | 0.179 | 0.245 | 0.067 | 0.311 | 0.256 |
| Inflammation | -0.4571 | -0.396 | -0.4921 | -0.402 | -0.302 | -0.23 | -0.431 | -0.315 |
| Ballooning | 0.154 | 0.114 | 0.175 | 0.254 | 0.165 | -0.037 | -0.029 | 0.096 |
| Fibrosis | -0.112 | -0.171 | -0.213 | -0.098 | 0.033 | -0.137 | -0.197 | -0.103 |
| NAS | 0.051 | 0.015 | 0.035 | 0.069 | 0.124 | -0.027 | 0.074 | 0.041 |
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Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).