Disease-specific miR-34a as diagnostic marker of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in a Chinese population

Table 3 Correlations between miRNAs and histological features

R	miR-122	miR-125b	miR-146b	miR-16	miR-192	miR-21	miR-27b	miR-34a
Steatosis	0.3021	0.143	0.230	0.068	0.3231	0.199	0.166	0.4702
Activity	0.4452	0.052	0.218	0.267	0.4472	0.3201	0.179	0.5172
Lobular inflammation	0.2851	-0.064	0.137	0.159	0.3962	0.254	0.184	0.5522
Hepatocellular ballooning	0.4772	0.154	0.225	0.2901	0.3501	0.281	0.101	0.3171
Fibrosis	-0.021	-0.078	0.125	0.3501	0.145	0.199	-0.028	0.134

Activity is the sum of the score of lobular inflammation and hepatocellular ballooning.

¹P < 0.05,

²P < 0.01.