Table 2. Spearman correlations of serum and liver plants sterols and sitostanol (ratio to total cholesterol) with liver histology.

	Steatosis grade	Fibrosis stage	Lobular inflammation	Ballooning
Serum (n=138)
Campesterol	−0.025	−0.002	−0.025	0.092
Sitosterol	−0.027	0.029	−0.028	0.159
Avenasterol	0.092	0.099	0.086	0.128
Sitostanol	0.100	0.026	0.098	0.024
Liver (n=38)
Campesterol	0.013	0.137	−0.052	0.119
Sitosterol	−0.392*	−0.097	−0.395*	0.054
Avenasterol	0.041	0.086	−0.025	−0.107
Sitostanol	0.650†	0.215	0.407*	0.059

Significant correlations are bolded, *P<0.05, ^†P<0.01.