Correlation between IP-10 detected in plasma and dried plasma spots.

<p>Samples from 19 patients with chronic hepatitis C infection and no/mild liver fibrosis and 21 patients with liver cirrhosis were compared. There was a highly significant correlation between IP-10 detected with the two methods (r² = 0.97, p<0.0001).</p

IP-10 measurements.

<p>IP-10 measured in plasma (left) and dried plasma spots (right) from 19 patients with chronic hepatitis C infection and no/mild liver fibrosis and 21 patients with liver cirrhosis. Line denote median. There was a significant difference between the groups in both plasma and dried plasma spots, p<0.0004.</p

A comparison of Receiver Operation Characteristic Curves of IP-10 determined in dried plasma spots and plasma.

<p>Analysis included samples from 21 patients with cirrhosis (regarded as cases) and 19 patients with no/mild fibrosis (regarded controls in the analysis). The Area Under the Curve reflects the markers’ ability to differentiate between the two groups of patients. There was no significant difference between the two methods.</p