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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2012 Mar 28;28(6):307–318. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2012.02.007

Table 5.

Inflammatory biomarkers: interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-10.

Cytokines (ng/mL) Day 1a Day 2a Day 3a Day 7a
Mean (SD) n = 70 n = 48 n = 30 n = 11
IL-6 rest 98 (135) 70 (73) 83 (110) 107 139)
IL-6 after exercise 100 (139) 73 (74) 83 (39) 113 (140)
IL-10 rest 31 (136) 50 (261) 74 (337) 17 (19)
IL-10 after exercise 33 (154) 55 (304) 75 (347) 17 (19)

Abbreviations: ng = nanogram; mL = millilitre; SD = standard deviation.

a

Day refers to day of enrolment: generally ICU day 3–16.