Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical significance of apolipoprotein B/A1 (ApoB/ApoA1) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25-(OH)D] in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC).Methods A total of 145 PBC outpatients and inpatients admitted to Huaihe Hospital of Henan University from June 2017 to October 2021, and another 100 healthy people who received health checkup in the hospital during the same period were selected and recorded as the PBC group and the control group, respectively. The clinical data and levels of ApoB/ApoA1 and 25-(OH)D were compared between the two groups. The patients in the PBC group were further divided into severe disease group (43 cases) and mild to moderate disease group (102 cases), and the clinical data and levels of ApoB/ApoA1 and 25-(OH)D were also compared between the subgroups. The factors affecting the severity of PBC patients were analyzed. The predictive values of ApoB/ApoA1, 25-(OH)D and their combination for the severity of PBC patients were analyzed with the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC).Results The level of ApoB/ApoA1 in the PBC group was higher than that in the control group (P < 0.05), while the level of 25-(OH)D in the study group was lower than that in the control group (P < 0.05). The proportion of hyperlipidemia, and levels of glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), glutamate aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), hyaluronic acid (HA), laminin (LN), procollagen type III (PCIII) and ApoB/ApoA1 in the severe disease group were higher than those in the mild to moderate disease group (P < 0.05), whereas the level of 25-(OH)D in the severe disease group was lower than that in the mild to moderate disease group (P < 0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that patients with hyperlipidemia [O^R = 3.053 (95% CI: 1.288, 7.237) ], the level of ApoB/ApoA1 [O^R = 3.184 (95% CI: 1.343, 7.548) ] and the level of 25-(OH)D [O^R = 3.377 (95% CI: 1.424, 8.006) ] were factors affecting the severity of PBC patients (P < 0.05). The results of ROC curve analysis revealed that the sensitivities of levels of ApoB/ApoA1, 25-(OH)D and their combination in predicting the severity of PBC patients were 74.42% (95% CI: 58.53, 85.96), 72.09% (95% CI: 56.09, 84.17), and 69.77% (95% CI: 53.70, 82.33), with the specificities being 66.67% (95% CI: 56.56, 75.50), 70.59% (95% CI: 60.62, 78.98), and 98.04% (95% CI: 92.41, 99.66), and AUCs being 0.668 (95% CI: 0.585, 0.744), 0.727 (95% CI: 0.647, 0.797), and 0.883 (95%CI: 0.820, 0.931), respectively.Conclusions The levels of ApoB/ApoA1 and 25-(OH)D are related to the disease severity of PBC patients, and the combination of levels of ApoB/ApoA1 and 25-(OH)D has a higher predictive power for the disease severity of PBC patients.