Table 2.

Correlation of sDcR3 with patient characteristics.

	Spearman correlation coefficient (r)	P
Chronic viral hepatitis
Age	0.046	NS
Sex		NS
HCV genotype		NS
AST	0.331	0.085
ALT	0.369	0.053
DC
Age	0.054	NS
Sex		NS
MELD score	0.653	<0.001
AST	0.299	NS
ALT	0.127	NS
Bilirubin	0.609	<0.001
INR	0.662	<0.001
Creatinine	0.243	NS

NS: nonsignificant value.