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Table 1 Clinical features of the CSHB patients at entry to the study.

From: Molecular features of the complementarity determining region 3 motif of the T cell population and subsets in the blood of patients with chronic severe hepatitis B

Characteristics

All patients (n = 42)

Sex (male/female)

29/13

Mean age (in years)†

45.6 ± 8.3

Duration of infection (years)†

14.2 ± 9.1

ALT level (IU/L)†

68.8 ± 75.3

Total bilirubin level (μmol/L)†

363.2 ± 173.5

HBV DNA (lg, copies/mL)†

4.5 ± 1.6

HBeAg-positive patients‡

16 (38.1%)

HBV genotypes

15B, 27C

  1. CSHB, chronic severe hepatitis B; ALT: alanine amino transferase; Normal values: ALT, ≤ 40 IU/L; total bilirubin, ≤ 21 μmol/L. †Data are expressed as mean ± SD; ‡ Data are expressed as no. (%).