Table 2. The Correlation Between Fibrosis and Clinical/Demographic Features of Patients Infected With Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1b^a.

Factors	r Value	P Value
ERα severity index	-0.413	< 0.01
Age, y	0.27	< 0.01
Platelet	-0.44	< 0.01
Neutrophil	-0.25	0.017
AST	0.56	< 0.01
Gender	0.13	0.19

^a Abbreviations: r, spearman correlation coefficient; ER, estrogen receptor; AST, aspartate aminotransferase.