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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2014 May;42(5):1110–1120. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000139

TABLE 6.

Admission Cytokine Levels for Men and Women for Both Trauma and Nontrauma Populations

Variable Trauma
Nontrauma
Men (n = 1,024) Women (n = 383) p Men (n = 471) Women (n = 413) p
IL-1 2.7 (2.7–5.6) 2.7 (2.7–5.3) 0.48 2.7 (2.7–4.6) 2.7 (2.7–2.8) 0.27

IL-2 3.7 (2.7–14.9) 2.7 (2.7–9.8) 0.0041 3.3 (2.7–13.3) 2.7 (2.7–10.9) 0.37

IL-4 38.2 (6.7–214) 31.2 (5.9–214) 0.50 45.1 (4.9–223) 29.2 (6.1–160) 0.28

IL-6 149 (54.7–374) 164 (68.4–353) 0.61 153 (47.7–487) 134 (41.3–394) 0.38

IL-8 32.8 (13.5–67.3) 29.9 (12.5–64.4) 0.61 54.1 (20.9–120) 41.9 (13.1–99.0) 0.036

IL-10 53.0 (21.8–129) 51.4 (20.1–128) 0.72 68.7 (30.8–244) 86.9 (26.9–246) 0.70

IL-12 2.7 (2.7–10.8) 2.7 (2.7–6.6) 0.0072 2.7 (2.7–10.8) 2.7 (2.7–12.3) 0.71

Interferon-γ 3.7 (2.7–12.3) 2.7 (2.7–8.3) 0.011 2.7 (2.7–8.2) 2.7 (2.7–8.7) 0.84

Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor 4.6 (2.7–10.2) 3.5 (2.7–8.3) 0.058 2.9 (2.7–8.3) 2.7 (2.7–6.2) 0.087

Tumor necrosis factor-α 5.4 (2.7–10.3) 4.6 (2.7–8.3) 0.038 9.9 (3.3–17.9) 8.2 (2.7–15.6) 0.018

IL = interleukin.

Values reported as median (interquartile range). All values are pg/mL. For the purposes of statistical analysis, undetectable cytokine levels were replaced with the minimum level of detectability for each assay, which was 2.7 pg/mL. Statistically significant p values are in bold font.