VWF and autoimmune hepatitis: Western blot results showed that compared with the normal controls, the ratio of vWF, adiponectin, pIgR was, respectively, increased 2.43 (p < 0.0001), 2.82 (p < 0.0001), 1.66 (p < 0.0001) in AIC, 1.39 (p < 0.001), 1.46 (p < 0.001), 2.72 (p < 0.0001) in AIH, 1.27 (p < 0.001), 1.21 (p < 0.05), 1.28 (p < 0.01) in HBV and 1.38 (p < 0.001), 1.40 (p < 0.001), 1.30 (p < 0.01) in HCV.