Serum Adiponectin, Vitamin D, and Alpha-Fetoprotein in Children with Chronic Hepatitis C: Can They Predict Treatment Response?

Table 2

Correlation of predictors of treatment response with other studied parameters.

Item	Adiponectin		Alpha-fetoprotein		HCV-RNA		Vitamin D
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Alpha-fetoprotein	−0.29	0.043
HCV-RNA	−0.39	0.005	0.217	0.13
Vitamin D	0.124	0.391	−0.09	0.545	−0.06	0.66
Age	0.055	0.705	0.05	0.731	0.042	0.773	0.203	0.157
BMI	0.045	0.755	0.223	0.119	−0.03	0.812	0.129	0.372
HB	−0.04	0.765	0.04	0.782	−0.02	0.882	0.028	0.85
WBCs	0.096	0.508	−0.14	0.315	0.032	0.823	0.001	0.996
Neutrophils	0.123	0.396	−0.10	0.474	0.067	0.644	−0.01	0.953
Platelets	−0.21	0.142	−0.04	0.795	0.127	0.379	0.027	0.855
ALT	0.06	0.677	−0.06	0.705	−0.06	0.666	−0.04	0.768
AST	0.162	0.262	0.077	0.594	0.153	0.287	−0.06	0.677
Stage of fibrosis	0.189	0.189	−0.09	0.524	0.016	0.911	0.141	0.327
Grade of activity	0.084	0.563	0.166	0.25	0.049	0.737	0.073	0.616

HCV-RNA: hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid; BMI: body mass index; HB: hemoglobin; WBCs: white blood cells; ALT: alanine transaminase; AST: aspartate transaminase.