Central Portalization Correlates with Fibrosis but Not with Risk Factors for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Steatotic Chronic Hepatitis C

Table 3

Pearson’s correlation coefficient () and values for histologic parameters. NASH: nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; NS: not statistically significant (); : statistically significant; NAFLD: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [36]; score and score: see Section 2.4 for definition.

	Parameters		value
Study group; HCV with steatosis >10%	Central zone versus fibrosis	−0.38	0.0018^∗
	Central zone versus steatosis		NS
	Fibrosis versus steatosis		NS
	Fibrosis versus NAFLD activity score		NS
	score versus fibrosis	0.38	0.008^∗
	score versus fibrosis	0.36	0.013^∗
	score versus steatosis		NS
	score versus steatosis		NS
	score versus NAFLD activity score	0.30	0.041^∗
	score versus NAFLD activity score		NS
HCV control group; HCV with ≤10% steatosis	score versus fibrosis		NS
	score versus fibrosis	0.54	0.036^∗
	score versus score	0.49	0.06
NASH control group; NASH, no HCV	score versus fibrosis		NS
	score versus NAFLD activity score		NS
	score versus steatosis		NS