Comparison of Serum and Dietary Selenium Levels in Participants with a Positive History of Recurrent Herpes Lesions and Healthy Individuals

Table 3

The correlation of serum selenium level and dietary selenium level and age.

		Age group 1	Age group 2
Serum selenium (ppb)	Pearson correlation	-0.041	-0.212
	value	0.8	0.2
		38	37
Dietary selenium (mg)	Pearson correlation	0.01	0.13
	value	0.95	0.46
		28	34

Group 1: positive history of herpetic lesions; group 2: healthy controls.