Hepatitis B virus DNA is more powerful than HBeAg in predicting peripheral T-lymphocyte subpopulations in chronic HBV-infected individuals with normal liver function tests

Figure 3 Correlation between T-cell subsets and viral load stratified by age at HBV infection. Three separate regression lines (with different slopes) are drawn for different groups of age at HBV infection. The coefficients of the interaction term “HBV DNA: age-at-HBV-infection” are not statistically significant for each parameter of T lymphocyte subpopulations (all P > 0.05). The P value indicates no significant influence of age at HBV infection on peripheral T-cell subpopulations.