Table 2.

Correlation between serum lipid, disease severity scores, and serum inflammatory cytokines

	Statistics	Ranson score	APACHE II score	SOFA score	Modified Marshall score	TNF-α	IL-6
Cholesterol	R	−0.198	−0.321	−0.367	−0.349	−0.335	−0.196
	P	0.115	0.010	0.003	0.004	0.025	0.192
HDL	R	−0.376	−0.483	−0.613	−0.669	−0.450	−0.540
	P	0.002	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001
LDL	R	−0.165	−0.371	−0.335	−0.423	−0.285	−0.356
	P	0.196	0.003	0.008	0.001	0.057	0.018
Triglyceride	R	0.130	0.071	0.094	0.246	−0.012	0.185
	P	0.301	0.579	0.463	0.048	0.937	0.219
APO A-I	R	−0.378	−0.467	−0.569	−0.597	−0.467	−0.471
	P	0.002	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	0.001

HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; APO A-I, apolipoprotein A-I; APACHE, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; SOFA, sequential organ failure assessment.