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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2016 Jan;78(1):26–37. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000261

Table 2.

The Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and Inflammatory Markers

Immune
Marker		 Elevated Depressive
Symptoms		 Low Depressive
Symptoms		 Analyses
Mean Lower
Limit		 Upper
Limit		 Mean Lower
Limit		 Upper
Limit		 df F p η2 N
IL-1β 14.49 6.11 32.65 4.68 1.96 9.86 9, 71 1.95 0.059 0.20 81
TNF-α 17.07 8.27 34.32 6.94 3.58 12.80 9, 72 2.13 0.038 0.21 82
IL-6 88.74 33.28 233.96 61.52 27.44 136.40 9, 75 2.01 0.050 0.19 85

Note. Results of 2-way ANCOVAs. Cytokine data are reported in pg/mL. Means and 95% confidence intervals are reported adjusted for age, ethnicity, stage of disease, time from surgery to study assessment, pain medication use, fatigue intensity, and smoking status.