Table 2.
Correlations between sCD163 and clinical and biochemical parameters
| Parameters | sCD163 | |
|---|---|---|
| rho | p-value | |
| Age | 0.56 | 0.00 |
| BMI | 0.02 | 0.91 |
| ALT | 0.34 | 0.07 |
| Albumin | −0.33 | 0.08 |
| Bilirubin | −0.04 | 0.84 |
| Platelets | −0.15 | 0.43 |
| IL-6 | 0.50 | 0.006 |
| IL-8 | 0.62 | < 0.001 |
| TNF-α | 0.54 | 0.002 |
| GEC | −0.51 | 0.02 |
| Liver stiffness | 0.14 | 0.46 |
| MELD | 0.27 | 0.16 |
BMI body mass index, ALT alanine transferase, IL interleukin, TNF-α tumor necrosis factor-α, GEC galactose elimination capacity, MELD Model of End-stage Liver Disease. Values in bold indicate significance below 0.05