Elevated Serum Levels of the Antiapoptotic Protein Decoy-Receptor 3 Are Associated with Advanced Liver Disease

Table 2

Correlation of sDcR3 with patient characteristics.

	Spearman correlation coefficient ()
Chronic viral hepatitis
Age	0.046	NS
Sex		NS
HCV genotype		NS
AST	0.331	0.085
ALT	0.369	0.053
DC
Age	0.054	NS
Sex		NS
MELD score	0.653	<0.001
AST	0.299	NS
ALT	0.127	NS
Bilirubin	0.609	<0.001
INR	0.662	<0.001
Creatinine	0.243	NS

NS: nonsignificant value.