Figure 3. Relationship between serum IL-6 concentrations (pg/ml) and leukocyte telomere length (in base pairs, bp) in depressed subjects.
(F = 3.29, p<0.05, controlling for age, sex and BMI). The relationship missed significance in the combined sample (depressed plus controls) (F = 2.45, p = 0.07, controlling for age, sex and BMI) and was not significant in the controls alone (not plotted) (F = 2.28, p = 0.13, controlling for age, sex and BMI).