Table 2.

Baseline correlations between hormones and inflammatory markers.

Hormone	Inflammatory marker (Pearson correlation coefficient and p-value)
	Cured	Failed
Adiponectin	IP-10 (0.49; 0.01)
Amylin (Tot)	MIP-1β (−0.53; 0.02)
Cortisol	IL-8 (0.54; 0.02), TNFα (0.47; 0.03)	CRP (0.72; 0.02), SAP A (0.83; 0.00), sIL-2Rα (0.85; 0.00)
Dehydroepiandrosterone	IL-5 (−0.47; 0.03), SAP A (−0.52; 0.01), CRP (−0.56; 0.00)
Estradiol	VEGF (−0.49; 0.04)
T3	IL-8 (−0.51; 0.03), sIL-2Rα (−0.51; 0.01)	CRP (−0.72; 0.02), IL-5 (0.65; 0.04)

Italic text: negative correlations.