Table 1 Demographic and laboratory parameters in the patients with different clinical diseases of chronic HBV infection.

From: Serum pentraxin 3 as a biomarker of hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis B virus infection

 

Chronic hepatitis (n = 159)

Cirrhosis (n = 99)

HCC (n = 107)

P

Gender (male/female)

96/63

61/38

92/15

 < 0.001

Age (years)

32.30 ± 12.39

46.98 ± 9.18

49.44 ± 10.90

 < 0.001

HBV DNA (IU/mL, log)

5.92 ± 1.83

5.34 ± 1.62

4.90 ± 1.50

 < 0.001

ALT (IU/L)

81 (31–331)

48 (28–84)

54 (33–102)

0.003

AST (IU/L)

65 (29–152)

58 (37–83)

70 (35–150)

0.538

TBIL (μmol/L)

18.5 (11.4–84.8)

26.1 (16.2–44.7)

26.2 (15.2–46.7)

0.108

Albumin (g/L)

38 (34.9–41)

30 (26.8–36.2)

33 (29.7–39.1)

 < 0.001

AFP (ng/mL)

12 (6.8–26.2)

12 (4.82–42)

97.4 (16.8–4886)

 < 0.001

PTX3 (ng/mL)

3.7 (1.6–6.4)

6.2 (3–9)

15.6 (9.6–24.3)

 < 0.001

  1. HBV hepatitis B virus, HCC hepatocellular carcinoma, ALT alanine aminotransferase, AST aspartate aminotransferase, TBIL total bilirubin, PTX3 pentraxin 3, AFP α-fetoprotein.