Table 2.

Correlation between different liver inflammation grades and age, serum HBsAg and HBeAg quantitation in treatment-naïve HBeAg-positive chronic HBV-infected patients

Parameters	B	SE	Wald	P	95% CI
Age (years)	0.018	0.007	6.981	0.008	0.005–0.031
HBsAg (log U/ml)	−0.267	0.107	6.184	0.013	−0.478–−0.057
HBeAg (log S/CO)	−0.362	0.074	24.067	<0.001	−0.506–−0.217
Sex (female/male)	−0.114	0.135	0.711	0.399	−0.380–0.151

HBsAg: Hepatitis B surface antigen; HBeAg: Hepatitis B e antigen; S/CO: Sample/cutoff; CI: Confidence interval; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; SE: Standard error.