Table 2.

Correlations between expression of LIGHT and its receptors (HVEM and LTβR) and severity of fibrosis and other demographic and clinical features

	LIGHT	HVEM	LTβR	Fibrosis score	Age	Disease duration
LIGHT	–	0.603	0.639	0.820	0.108	0.561
HVEM	0.603	–	0.681	0.709	0.129	0.684
LTβR	0.639	0.681	–	0.720	0.042	0.567
Fibrosis score	0.820	0.709	0.720	–	0.103	0.861
Age	0.108	0.129	0.042	0.103	–	0.117
Disease duration	0.669	0.684	0.567	0.861	0.117	–

Values of the Spearman r coefficient are presented for particular correlations. As given in “Methods,” correlations were considered significant if the Spearmen r coefficient was ≥ 0.5 and p value was < 0.05. The fibrosis score was assessed histopathologically using Masson’s trichrome staining