Table 4.

Association of inflammatory cytokines with blood pressure and estimated 24 hour urinary Na⁺, K⁺, and Na⁺: K⁺ ratio in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients.

	Interleukin-6	Interleukin-10	Vascular cell adhesion protein-1
Systolic blood pressure	rhoa = 0.08	rho = 0.02	rho = 0.21
	p = 0.33	p = 0.80	p = 0.006
Diastolic blood pressure	rho = 0.06	rho = −0.02	rho = 0.09
	p = 0.44	p = 0.81	p = 0.22
Na+ (grams)	rho = 0.02	rho = 0.02	rho = 0.001
	p = 0.81	p = 0.76	p = 0.99
K+ (grams)	rho = −0.08	rho = −0.14	rho = 0.04
	p = 0.31	p = 0.07	p = 0.58
Na:K+	rho = 0.13	rho = −0.20	rho = −0.03
	p = 0.09	p = 0.009	p = 0.67

^aSpearman correlation