Prevalence of Occult Hepatitis C Virus in Egyptian Patients with Chronic Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Table 3

Correlation between clinical and laboratory data in HCV positive and OCI positive LPD patients versus HCV and OCI negative LPD patients.

Parameter	LPD patients
	HCV positive		OCI positive		HCV and OCI negative
	𝑟	𝑃 value	𝑟	𝑃 value	𝑟	𝑃 value
Age	0.091	0.528	0.082	0.571	0.018	0.9
Hepatomegaly	0.060	0.267	0.063	0.257	0.161	0.244
Splenomegaly	0.092	0.526	0.089	0.538	0.095	0.514
Sex	0.022	0.399	0.096	0.172	0.0171	0.234
Hb (gm%)	0.323	0.037	0.086	0.552	0.092	0.525
Platelets ×10^3 mm³	0.437	0.040	0.316	0.013	0.065	0.653
TLC/mm³	0.074	0.608	0.018	0.413	0.000	0.999
AST	0.022	0.398	0.446	0.053	0.048	0.742
ALT	0.221	0.044	0.029	0.110	0.250	0.08
Bilirubin (T)	0.059	0.682	0.518	0.021	0.236	0.098