Table 7.

Relative Risk of Death Estimated by Comparing the Highest Concentration of Cytokines (Top Quartile) to All Other Quartiles Combined

Patients	Cytokines
Trauma patients	IL4	IL6	IL8	TNF
Relative risk	2.18	1.60	1.73	1.48
95% CI	(1.535, 3.109)	(1.109, 2.313)	(1.207, 2.494)	(1.016, 2.143)
p Value	<0.01	0.01	<0.01	0.04
Infected, non-trauma patients	IL2	IL8	IL10	GMCSF
Relative risk	1.20	1.56	1.27	1.34
95% CI	(0.819, 1.755)	(1.098, 2.228)	(0.871, 1.843)	(0.925, 1.934)
p Value	0.36	0.02	0.23	0.13
Non-infected, non-trauma patients	IL6	IL8	IL10
Relative risk	1.62	2.22	1.49
95% CI	(0.982, 2.681)	(1.371, 3.587)	(0.897, 2.489)
p Value	0.06	<0.01	0.13