. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 9.

Published in final edited form as: Cytokine. 2010 Apr 24;51(1):18–24. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2010.03.014

Table 3.

Association of cytokine level with disease status.

Cytokine	Number of matched pairs	Difference^a			Conditional logistic regression^b
		Mean	SD	p-Value (paired t-test)	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval
IL-17	39	0.0237	0.1533	0.3403	1.5563	0.6145–3.941
IL-12	39	0.1021	0.5453	0.2496	1.5615	0.7212–3.381
IL-8	29	–0.3365	1.0115	0.0840	0.6422	0.3819–1.080
TGF-β1	36	–0.0291	0.6106	0.7766	0.9320	0.5786–1.501
IL-6	20	0.9348	1.5819	0.0160	3.2708	0.9294–11.51
IL-1β	20	1.3889	1.6731	0.0015	18.8670	0.2434–1462
IL-10	20	0.3766	1.7655	0.3521	1.4208	0.6822–2.959
IL-2	20	0.9947	1.9228	0.0320	2.5238	0.9558–6.664
IL-13	20	0.4624	1.7244	0.2452	1.5417	0.7289–3.261
IL-4	20	0.6766	1.8023	0.1095	1.7454	0.8508–3.581
IFN	20	0.5165	1.6832	0.1860	1.9100	0.7012–5.203
IL-5	20	1.0568	1.3983	0.0031	4.1032	1.0216–16.48
TNF	20	1.0088	1.5774	0.0100	3.6083	0.8504–15.31

Difference = the difference of cytokine level (in log scale) between the cases and controls.

Odds ratio = the odds ratio of cases vs. controls for one standard deviation change of cytokine level in log scale.