Table 5.
Serum cytokine concentrations analysed by sex and tendon status (excluding observations with CV >15 %)
| Male | Female | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyte (pg/mL) | Normal | Tendinopathy | p | Normal | Tendinopathy | p |
| TNF-α | 167.65 (62.11) | 135.77 (30.36) | 0.301 | 199.29 (70.22) | 78.72 (61.85) | 0.053 |
| 5 | 13 | 3 | 5 | |||
| IL-1β | 12.23 (3.79) | 11.68 (2.08) | 0.938 | 14.35 (2.60) | 10.12 (4.37) | 0.059 |
| 6 | 15 | 4 | 7 | |||
| bFGF | 79.67 (32.30) | 75.56 (25.30) | 0.883 | 54.35 (15.56) | 56.00 (2.26) | 0.807 |
| 5 | 13 | 4 | 5 | |||
| INF-γ | 168.99 (72.33) | 150.92 (42.14) | 0.876 | 176.99 (91.78) | 139.22 (34.25) | 0.796 |
| 6 | 15 | 3 | 6 | |||
| PDGF-BB | 11108.4 (3378.3) | 11181.3 (2857.4) | 0.640 | 13441.1 (613.2) | 10808.5 (4737.3) | 0.023 |
| 6 | 15 | 4 | 7 | |||
| VEGF | 238.97 (155.33) | 240.24 (130.65) | 0.876 | 156.12 (70.7) | 209.69 (70.28) | 0.297 |
| 6 | 15 | 4 | 5 | |||