Table 4.

Correlations between tumour necrosis percentage and peripheral and mesenteric vein serum cytokine concentrations.

Variable	N	Peripheral cytokines				Mesenteric cytokines				Difference (mesenteric-peripheral)
		Unadjusted		Adjusted		Unadjusted		Adjusted		Unadjusted		Adjusted
		Pearson r	P value	Beta	P value	Pearson r	P value	Beta	P value	Pearson r	P value	Beta	P value
IL7	26	−0.015	0.94	−0.032	0.88	0.041	0.84	0.081	0.71	−0.039	0.85	−0.002	0.99
CXCL8	26	0.219	0.28	0.159	0.47	0.297	0.14	0.242	0.33	0.152	0.46	0.144	0.50
IL12	26	−0.123	0.55	−0.251	0.27	−0.153	0.46	−0.258	0.24	0.109	0.60	0.126	0.55
IFNG	26	−0.273	0.18	−0.228	0.30	−0.393	0.047	−0.363	0.076	−0.068	0.74	−0.091	0.67
CXCL10	26	−0.203	0.32	−0.466	0.049	−0.386	0.051	−0.460	0.022	0.111	0.59	0.255	0.27
CCL4	26	0.035	0.87	−0.027	0.90	−0.068	0.74	−0.087	0.68	−0.121	0.56	−0.086	0.69
CCL2	26	0.091	0.66	0.042	0.85	0.189	0.36	0.162	0.55	0.162	0.43	0.257	0.29
PDGFB	26	−0.040	0.85	−0.082	0.70	0.160	0.44	0.078	0.73	0.093	0.65	0.096	0.65

The adjusted correlation coefficients (Beta) were based on multivariable linear regression models that included age (continuous) and Stage (I–II and III). The difference variable was calculated by subtracting the peripheral vein serum value from the mesenteric.