Table 3.

Inflammatory and metabolic biomarkers, pre- to completion of (end) bed rest analysis, N=5

Inflammatory Biomarker	Pre- BR	End- BR	p-value*
hsCRP	0.5 ± 0.3	0.3 ± 0.1	0.18
IL-6	0.4 ± 0.2	0.4 ± 0.3	0.62
sICAM	7 ± 2	6 ± 2	0.58
TNF-α	2 ± 1	2 ± 1	0.28
Metabolic Biomarker
Adiponectin	55 ± 3	46 ± 31	0.16
logAdiponectin	1.6 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5	0.05
Resistin	7 ± 2	8 ± 3	0.18
logResistin	1 ± 0.2	1 ± 0.2	0.23
Leptin	2 ± 2	1 ± 1	0.25
logLeptin	−0.02 ± 1	−0.1 ± 1	0.59
HOMA-IR	1 ± 1	1 ± 0	0.96

^*p-value calculated from paired t-test.