Treatment of Liver Fibrosis after Hepatitis B with TCM Combined with NAs Evaluated by Noninvasive Diagnostic Methods: A Retrospective Study

Table 8

Logistic regression analysis of the influence of some risk factors on ending.

Factors	Variable names	Assignment description
Course of disease (years)	X1	<7 = 1, ≥7 = 2
Age (years)	X2	<40 = 1, 40∼49 = 2, 50∼59 = 3, 60∼69 = 4, 70∼80 = 5
Gender	X3	Male = 1, female = 2
HBsAg	X4	<250 = 1, ≥250 = 2
HBeAg	X5	Negative = 0, positive = 1
HBV DNA level	X6	∼10^2 = 1, ∼10^3 = 2, 10^3∼ = 3
Other basic diseases	X7	No = 0, yes = 1
Smoking	X8	No = 0, yes = 1
Drinking	X9	No = 0, yes = 1
Family history	X10	No = 0, yes = 1
TCM use or not	X11	No = 0, yes = 1
Ending	Y	No = 0, yes = 1

indicates whether the outcome is decompensated cirrhosis and/or liver cancer.