Apelin Serum Level in Egyptian Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

Table 5

Correlation coefficients (𝑟) of different parameters in patients with CHC (𝑛=73).

Parameters/groups	Adjusted-apelin (ng/mL)
	ASC	Fibrosis	Cirrhosis
𝑛	20	20	33
TNF-α (pg/mL)	0.26^NS	−0.212^NS	−0.488**
HOMA-IR	0.665**	0.202^NS	0.18^NS

𝑟 = Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients. **, ***Correlation is significant at the 0.01, 0.001 level. NS: nonsignificant correlation.