Table 2.

Relationships among age, HBV DNA, ALT, HBsAg, HBeAg in serum and intrahepatic HBsAg expression.

+		HBsAg expression	HBsAg	HBV DNA	HBeAg	ALT	Age	AFP	E
−
HBsAg expression	r		0.051	0.077	−0.102	0.123	−0.055	0.088	−0.113
	p		0.557	0.373	0.235	0.152	0.524	0.372	0.188
HBsAg	r	0.377	–	0.569	0.565	0.063	−0.210	−0.151	−0.271
	p	<0.001	–	<0.001	<0.001	0.468	0.014	0.122	0.001
HBV DNA	r	0.130	0.110	–	0.636	0.127	−0.183	−0.141	−0.171
	p	0.095	0.157	–	<0.001	0.140	0.033	0.151	0.047
HBeAg	r	–	–	–	–	0.037	−0.278	−0.266	−0.240
	p	–	–	–	–	0.671	0.001	0.006	0.005
ALT	r	0.144	0.077	0.358	–	–	−0.286	0.365	0.122
	p	0.064	0.324	<0.001	–	–	<0.001	<0.001	0.158
Age	r	−0.231	−0.167	−0.014	–	−0.038	–	0.140	0.206
	p	0.003	0.032	0.875	–	0.628	–	0.151	0.016
AFP	r	−0.026	0.009	0.147	–	0.125	0.040	–	0.251
	p	0.767	0.305	0.093	–	0.155	0.653	–	0.009
E	r	−0.027	0.012	0.310	–	0.349	0.091	0.191	–
	p	0.732	0.877	<0.001	–	<0.001	0.245	0.029	–

’−’ – HBeAg negative; ‘+’ – HBeAg positive. ALT – alanine aminotransferase; HBV – hepatitis B virus; AFP – alpha fetoprotein; HBsAg – hepatitis B surface antigen; HBeAg – hepatitis B e antigen. E, FibroScan score. HBsAg expression: the degree of expression of HBsAg in hepatocyte. Statistical results were determined by Spearman rank correlation.