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Table 3.

TNFα levels in high and low TNFα producing patient users and nonusers of antimalarial treatment

TNFα genotype	Healthy controls		Patients without antimalarial drugs		Patients with antimalarial drugs		p
	n	TNFα (pg/ml)^a	n	TNFα (pg/ml)^a	n	TNFα (pg/ml)^a

High (AA/AG)	53	20.06 (125.63)	24	83.55 (171.64)	48	16.88 (54.89)	0.001
Low (GG)	162	18.83 (40.67)	45	58.56 (168.94)	54	26.00 (154.67)	0.516

^aValues are median (interquartile range). Differences between users and nonusers of antimalarial therapy were evaluated by the Mann-Whitney U test. TNF, tumor necrosis factor.