Table 1

Patients and normal controls

Characteristics		Diagnosis
Characteristics		AIH	PBC	Viral hepatitis C	Viral hepatitis B	Normal controls
No of patients and controls	28	44	27	23	24
Sex (M/F)	6/22	4/40	15/12	15/8	8/16
Median age (years)^1-150	52 (24–80)	60 (36–71)	53 (30–62)	30 (20–56)	51 (34–77)
Other immunological diseases^1-151	7 (25)	12 (27)	1 (4)	0 (0)	0 (0)
(concomitant presence of UC^1-151)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Positive ANA (⩾1:40)^1-151	25 (89)	29 (66)	2 (7)	1 (4)	0 (0)
Positive SMA (⩾1:40)^1-151	16 (57)	1 (2)	6 (22)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Positive AMA (⩾1:40)^1-151	3 (11)	33 (75)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Presence of cirrhosis^1-151	3 (11)	11 (25)	4 (15)	3 (13)	0 (0)
Use of prednisolone at the time of sampling^1-151	5 (18)	1 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)

↵1-150 Data in parentheses represent ranges.
↵1-151 Data expressed as number of patients (percentage of whole).
AIH, autoimmune hepatitis; PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis; UC, ulcerative colitis; ANA, anti-nuclear antibody; SMA, anti-smooth muscle antibody; AMA, anti-mitochondrial antibody.