Research Article
Elevated Serum Levels of the Antiapoptotic Protein Decoy-Receptor 3 Are Associated with Advanced Liver Disease
Table 2
Correlation of sDcR3 with patient characteristics.
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| Chronic viral hepatitis | | | Age | 0.046 | NS | Sex | | NS | HCV genotype | | NS | AST | 0.331 | 0.085 | ALT | 0.369 | 0.053 |
| DC | | | Age | 0.054 | NS | Sex | | NS | MELD score | 0.653 | <0.001 | AST | 0.299 | NS | ALT | 0.127 | NS | Bilirubin | 0.609 | <0.001 | INR | 0.662 | <0.001 | Creatinine | 0.243 | NS |
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NS: nonsignificant value.
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