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Table 3 Spearmanā€™s rank correlation analysis of serum thymic stromal lymphopoietin levels versus laboratory/clinical parameters in 36 patients with HCV-related cryoglobulinemic vasculitis

From: Thymic stromal lymphopoietin in hepatitis C virus-related cryoglobulinemic vasculitis: gene expression level and protein distribution

Parameter

r coefficient

95% confidence interval

P value a

Epidemiology

Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒAge (years)

āˆ’0.2144

āˆ’0.5147 to 0.1328

0.2092

Virology

Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒSerum HCV RNA (log IU/ml)

āˆ’0.2000

āˆ’0.5307 to 0.1836

0.2893

ā€ƒSerum HCV nonenveloped core protein (pg/ml)

0.4182

0.0768 to 0.6718

0.02

Laboratory

Ā Ā Ā 

ā€ƒCryocrit (%)

āˆ’0.0845

āˆ’0.4104 to 0.2605

0.6241

ā€ƒRheumatoid factor (IU/ml)

āˆ’0.1182

āˆ’0.4520 to 0.2447

0.5125

ā€ƒIgM (mg/dl)

0.1000

āˆ’0.2619 to 0.4373

0.5798

ā€ƒC1q (mg/dl)

0.6571

0.2605 to 0.8640

0.0030

ā€ƒC3 (mg/dl)

0.7335

0.5137 to 0.8629

0.0001

ā€ƒC4 (mg/dl)

0.1388

āˆ’0.2085 to 0.4551

0.4194

ā€ƒALT (IU/l)

0.1763

āˆ’0.2072 to 0.5129

0.3514

ā€ƒPeripheral CD20+ cells (%)

0.7143

0.3581 to 0.8890

0.0009

  1. HCV, hepatitis C virus. a P <0.05 was defined as significant.