Table 3.

Correlation between serum HBV RNA and laboratory parameters in different phases of chronic HBV infection

	IT (n = 35)		EPIA (n = 121)		ICH (n = 77)		ENH (n = 58)
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
Age(year)	−0.019	0.916	−0.205	0.024	−0.136	0.240	−0.054	0.689
ALT(U/L)	0.051	0.773	0.220	0.015	0.123	0.286	0.489	0.000
AST(U/L)	0.286	0.096	0.231	0.011	0.336	0.003	0.546	0.000
HBeAg(S/CO)	−0.215	0.214	0.291	0.001	/	/	/	/

IT immune tolerant, EPIA HBeAg-positive immune-active phase, ICH Inactive chronic hepatitis B phase, ENH HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B phase, ALT alanine aminotransferase, AST aspartate aminotransferase, HBeAg Hepatitis B e antigen