Table 2.

Geometric means of cytokines stratified for survival status among N = 370 subjects of the MEMO study

All-cause mortality
Cytokines	Yes N = 110	No N = 260	Crude p valueb	Adjusted p valuec
IL-1-beta (pg/ml)	54.4	48.4	0.015	0.116
IL-4-sR (pg/ml)	69.6	65.7	0.180	0.261
IL-6 (pg/ml)	3.0	2.4	0.003	0.047
IL-8 (pg/ml)	9.5	8.1	0.001	0.041
IL-10 (pg/ml)	2.1	1.8	0.018	0.018
IL-12 (pg/ml)	3.2	3.3	0.249	0.704
TNF-alpha (ng/ml)	2.6	2.3	0.024	0.124

Fifteen individuals of N = 385 were excluded from the analyses due to missing cytokine data (no blood obtained)

^aCrude p value of two sample t test

^bSeparate linear regression analyses of single cytokine plus covariates age, gender, smoking