Table 4

Kruskall-Wallis analysis of variance of inter-related histological scores

	Portal inflammation by..	Piecemeal necrosis by..	Lobular inflammation by..	Councilman bodies by..	Macrophage reaction by	Fibrosis stage by..	HBcAg by..	Ground glass cells by..	Steatosis by..	Log serum HBV DNA by..
The numbers denote the significance levels of the χ² statistic, corrected for ties. The row variables are the grouping variables, the columns the dependent variables.
For ground glass cells the patients with a score of 1 are compared with the other patients (scores 0, 2, or 3).
HBcAg, hepatitis B core antigen; HBV, hepatitis B virus.
Portal inflammation		85.1	35.2	41.5	10.8	54.1	35.2	5.9	5.5	24.5
		<0.00005	<0.00005	<0.00005	0.0127	<0.00005	<0.00005	0.1150	0.1404	<0.00005
Piecemeal necrosis	80.6		14.0	29.9	5.9	78.5	42.5	11.4	2.2	26.6
	<0.00005		0.0030	<0.00005	0.1150	<0.00005	<0.00005	0.0097	0.5283	<0.00005
Lobular inflammation	32.8	15.3		80.3	8.9	5.6	7.6	8.2	6.1	9.3
	<0.00005	0.0016		<0.00005	0.0305	0.1339	0.0547	0.0414	0.1079	0.0259
Councilman bodies	43.1	30.0	80.2		11.6	15.9	25.6	8.9	4.8	12.8
	<0.00005	<0.00005	<0.00005		0.0088	<0.00005	<0.00005	0.0311	0.1850	0.0050
Macrophage reaction	8.4	6.2	7.9	8.9		3.4	8.0	1.8	1.5	5.1
	0.0151	0.0441	0.0196	0.0114		0.1785	0.0180	0.4099	0.4778	0.0763
Fibrosis stage	56.2	80.4	17.3	20.9	6.1		21.1	16.6	4.6	23.8
	<0.00005	<0.00005	0.0017	0.0003	0.1953		0.0003	0.0023	0.3270	0.0001
HBcAg expression	34.4	41.8	7.8	22.7	7.7	21.8		9.1	4.8	32.7
	<0.00005	<0.00005	0.0996	0.0001	0.1046	0.0002		0.0578	0.3044	<0.00005
Ground glass cells	5.8	8.8	4.5	4.7	1.4	5.9	5.2		1.1	2.0
	0.0162	0.0029	0.0334	0.0366	0.2410	0.0150	0.0223		0.2989	0.1561
Steatosis	6.8	9.2	4.5	6.9	1.1	6.1	3.7	1.3		6.11
	0.0330	0.0099	0.1064	0.0314	0.5686	0.0467	0.1568	0.5210		0.0471