A statistical analysis of the correlations among various types of clinical indexes for patients with chronic hepatitis B: A hospital-based study.

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the commonest chronic infections, especially in Asia and Africa, which put a heavy burden worldwide. With the advanced knowledge of HBV, early detection, primary care, and hepatology have made huge progression than before. However, the relationship between gender, age, and different key parameters in HBV patients remains to be determined.In this study, we measured various physiological and biochemical indexes in a large cohort of HBV patients as well as healthy control. We investigated the strength of correlations among those indexes and reported instantaneous imaging results. Moreover, we examined the effects of various grouping modes such as by gender or age on liver stiffness measurement (LSM) and controlled attenuation parameters (CAPs). We compared their diagnostic values for hepatic fibrosis in HBV patients.The results showed that specimens from a healthy control were obviously clustering tightly together, while the specimens from the HBV patients were clustering into several subgroups. Direct bilirubin (DB), total bilirubin (TB), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) occurred together with the diagnosis of HBV. Furthermore, groups categorized by Gender had significant effects on fibrotouch measurement not only in HBV patients but also in healthy control.Our research was to evaluate the actual effects of various parameters on Fibrotouch and make improvement of the critical value of those medical indexes.