Table 1.

Correlation coefficients of HBcrAg and other hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers.

No. of Patients	(a) Serum HBV DNA		(b) Intrahepatic Total HBV DNA		(c) Intrahepatic cccDNA		Year	Country Where the Patients Were Enrolled	References
	Correlation Coefficient	p Value	Correlation Coefficient	p Value	Correlation Coefficient	p Value
82	Total: 0.807	<0.001					2003	Japan	[33]
	HBeAg-positive: 0.847	<0.001
	HBeAg-negative:0.632	<0.001
190	0.79 (HBV genotype B)	<0.001					2005	Japan	[41]
	0.87 (HBV genotype C)	<0.001
93	0.82	<0.001	0.7	<0.001	0.664	<0.001	2007	Japan	[40]
31					0.482	<0.006	2009	Japan	[34]
138	Total: 0.69	<0.0001			0.7	<0.0001	2017	Hong Kong	[42]
	HBeAg-positive: 0.66	<0.0001
	HBeAg-negative:0.59	<0.0001
305			0.67	<0.001			2017	Hong Kong	[42]
79 of 82*					0.323	0.004	2019	China	[46]