Expression of Inflammation-Related Genes Is Altered in Gastric Tissue of Patients with Advanced Stages of NAFLD

Table 4

Best fitting multiple linear regression models showing the relationship between predictor variables and the predicted clinical parameter.

Group	Independent variable	Regression coefficient 𝛽	𝑃 values of independent variables	𝑃 value of the entire model
Advanced liver inflammation (score ≥ 3)	(Intercept)	−0.5745 ± 0.8110	0.4896
	CCL21	0.0012 ± 0.0003	0.0007
	CCR5	0.0004 ± 0.0001	0.0064	𝑃<0.001
	AGE	0.0288 ± 0.0162	0.0964
	ALT	0.0267 ± 0.0136	0.0688
	(Intercept)	0.3545 ± 0.1988	0.0980
	CCR3	0.0003 ± 0.0002	0.0626
	CXCL12	−0.0001 ± 0.0000	0.0724
NASH	IL1RN	0.0003 ± 0.0001	0.0810	𝑃<0.002
	IL5	−0.0003 ± 0.0001	0.0683
	IL8RA	0.0655 ± 0.0215	0.0092
	IL8RB	0.0004 ± 0.0002	0.0532
Fibrosis	(Intercept)	0.5750 ± 0.2471	0.0318	𝑃<0.006
	IL1RN	0.0007 ± 0.0002	0.0063

Regression coefficient 𝛽 represents slope estimate ± standard error of the estimate (SE) (𝑃≤0.05 were considered significant).