Table 3.

Gastric mucosal IL-6 in the mild hypothermia-treated and control groups (χ̄±SD).

Group	Mild hypothermia	Control	P value
Baseline	0.0715±0.0093	0.0780±0.0088	0.142
2 h	0.1079±0.0129	0.1175±0.0095	0.094
6 h	0.1449±0.0173	0.1697±0.0138	0.004*
12 h	0.2204±0.0218	0.2652±0.0178	0.000**
24 h	0.1853±0.0155	0.2005±0.0146	0.046*

Compared with the control group,

^*P<0.05;

^**P<0.01.