Table 2. Statistical analysis of correlations between levels of miR-33a-5p and inflammatory cytokines.

		qIL-6	qIL-12	qTNF	qIL-1a
Unadjusted (n=20)	Pearson Correlation with exp(ΔΔCT miR-33a-5p)	.288	-.102	-.364	.081
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.218	.168	.115	.733
Adjusted* (n=18)	Pearson Correlation with exp(ΔΔCT miR-33a-5p)	-.415	.096	-.600**	-.066
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.016	.003	.008	.795

*The 2 outliers exp(ΔΔCT _miR-33a-5p) are removed.

qIL-6 = IL6_{Day 42}/IL6_{Day 1}, qIL-12 = IL-12_{Day 42}/ IL-12_{Day 1}, qTNF = qTNF_{Day 42}/ qTNF_{Day 1}, qIL-1a = qIL-1a_{Day 42}/ qIL-1aDay 1.