Serum Activins and Follistatin during the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Genotypes 1 and 4 and Their Correlations with Viral Load and Liver Enzymes: A Preliminary Report

Table 3

Results of correlation analysis using Pearson’s test for activin-A, activin-B, follistatin, AFRI, BFRI, and ASFRI with viral load, albumin, liver enzymes, and APRI.

	Viral load at sample collection	Albumin	ALP	ALT	AST	APRI
Activin-A
𝑅 value	0.716*	−0.570*	0.270*	0.186	0.374*	0.528*
𝑃 value	0.000000001	0.0000004	0.002	0.36	0.0003	0.000001
Activin-B
𝑅 value	0.113	0.107	0.063	−0.146	−0.023	0.157
𝑃 value	0.21	0.23	0.48	0.1	0.8	0.076
Follistatin
𝑅 value	−0.244	−0.065	0.084	−0.072	−0.061	0.051
𝑃 value	0.007	0.46	0.35	0.42	0.49	0.56
AFRI
𝑅 value	0.604*	−0.289	0.098	0.067	0.146	0.233
𝑃 value	0.000001	0.003	0.27	0.45	0.1	0.008
BFRI
𝑅 value	0.222	0.02	−0.052	−0.068	−0.077	−0.069
𝑃 value	0.01	0.8	0.56	0.44	0.39	0.44
ASFRI
𝑅 value	0.534*	−0.219	0.056	0.034	0.100	0.158
𝑃 value	0.00003	0.01	0.53	0.42	0.26	0.07

^∗𝑃<0.01.