Table 1.

Serum cytokines before and after 1 year of steroid therapy

	Normal values	Diagnosis	Before steroids	1 year on steroids
TNF (pg/ml)	<3	122	48	16
IL-1β (pg/ml)	<5	<5	<5	<5
sCD25 (U/ml)	<1000	8806	5323	3052
ACE (U/l)	15–45	88	186	54