Table 4:

Correlation among various tear cytokines (N=131 patients).

	Spearman correlation coefficient (p-value)
	IL-1β	IL-6	IL-8	IL-17A	IL-10	IFNγ	TNFα
IL-1β	1.00	0.33 (0.0001)	−0.11 (0.23)	0.65 (<0.0001)	0.76 (<0.0001)	0.71 (<0.0001)	0.57 (<0.0001)
IL-6		1.00	0.63 (<0.0001)	0.17 (0.06)	0.19 (0.03)	0.09 (0.29)	0.45 (<0.0001)
IL-8			1.00	−0.29 (0.0007)	−0.32 (0.0003)	−0.34 (<0.0001)	−0.01 (0.91)
IL-17A				1.00	0.70 (<0.0001)	0.88 (<0.0001)	0.55 (<0.0001)
IL-10					1.00	0.68 (<0.0001)	0.48 (<0.0001)
IFNγ						1.00	0.45 (<0.0001)
TNFα							1.00

Correlation coefficients in bold are associated with a p-value ≤0.05.