Table 5 Demographic characteristics of all studied subjects and statistical comparison between EHCC and AHCC^a using Wilcoxon’s rank-sum test and between all the studied groups using Kruskal-Wallis test^b

Age (years)

60 (55–63)

57 (52–60)

0.193^a

64 (60–69)

60 (56–62)

0.0509^b

Albumin (g/dl)

3.6 (3.2–3.6)

2.9 (2.5–3.4)

0.0013^a

3.9 (3.3–4.7)

3.9 (3.2–4.6)

0.0037^b

Total bilirubin (mg/dl)

1.15 (0.9–1.9)

1.4 (0.8–4.3)

0.0105^a

0.5 (0.3–0.9)

0.4 (0.2–0.9)

< 0.0001^b

INR

1.15 (1.1–1.2)

1.39 (1.2–1.65)

0.1635^a

1.05 (1–1.29)

0.85 (0.62–1.1)

0.0002^b

BUN (mg/dl)

12 (10–18)

13 (10–26)

0.0298^a

20 (17–24)

17 (9–20)

0.0012^b

Creatinine (mg/dl)

0.75 (0.63–1)

1.05 (0.9–1.63)

0.0173^a

0.95 (0.8–1.1)

0.9 (0.7–1)

0.0344^b

AST (U/L)

40 (33–47)

93 (59–190)

0.2746^a

24 (19–35)

13 (12–18)

< 0.0001^b

ALT (U/L)

40 (31–50)

66 (32–95)

0.0029^a

24 (12–52)

17 (12–21)

0.0006^b

AFP (ng/ml)

5.5 (3.3–136)

250 (65–9784)

0.0117^a

4.6 (3.1–6.1)

3.6 (2.5–4.6)

< 0.0001^b