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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 2.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Apr 16;62(4):314–320. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.10.016

Table 2.

Mean Levels of Inflammatory Markers by Depression Status

Unadjusted Mean (± SE) Mean (± SE), Adjusted for Table 1 Variables


Current Depression
n = 217
No Current Depression
n = 767
p Value Current Depression
n = 217
No Current Depression
n = 767
p Value
WBC (K/cmm) 6.8 ± .13 6.5 ± .07 .08 7.1 ± .23 7.1 ± .21 .65
CD40 Ligand (pg/mL) 5933 ± 212 5851 ± 112 .73 5760 ± 390 5918 ± 351 .60
Log CRP .74 ± .09 .70 ± .05 .65 1.4 ± .15 1.6 ± .13 .09
Fibrinogen (mg/dL) 374 ± 6 397 ± 3 .001 400 ± 10.5 423 ± 9.5 .006
Log IL-6 .86 ± .05 .98 ± .03 .03 1.05 ± .08 1.2 ± .07 .007