TABLE 2.
Relationships between Plasmodium MIF and parasitemia, IL-10, and HuMIF assessed by multiple stepwise regression analysis
| Predictorb | PfMIFa |
PvMIFa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parameter estimate | Pc | Standardized estimate | Parameter estimate | Pc | Standardized estimate | |
| Parasitemia | 0.00002301 | <0.0001 | 0.44 | 0.00007727 | <0.0001 | 0.56 |
| IL-10 | 3.66 | <0.0001 | 0.65 | 0.48 | 0.0001 | 0.36 |
| HuMIF | −0.30 | 0.0018 | −0.19 | 0.09 | 0.063 | 0.18 |
a
PfMIF and PvMIF served as the criterion variables.
b
Parasitemia, IL-10, and HuMIF were significant predictors assessed by multiple stepwise regression analysis.
c
All P values shown were <0.10.