Table 2. Associations between sickness behaviour, mAQLQ, self-rated health and inflammatory cytokines reported in quartiles with quartile 1 as reference.
| Women Sickness1 |
mAQLQ2 | SRH3 | Men Sickness1 |
mAQLQ2 | SRH3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL-5 | ||||||
| quartile 3 | -0.02 | -0.16 | 0.00 | -0.07 | -0.08 | 0.02 |
| quartile 4 | -0.27 | -0.07 | 0.08 | -0.22 | 0.15 | -0.11 |
| IL-6 | ||||||
| quartile 2 | 0.01 | -0.02 | 0.22 | -0.36* | 0.07 | -0.24 |
| quartile 3 | -0.03 | 0.13 | 0.21 | -0.54*** | -0.05 | -0.37* |
| quartile 4 | 0.04 | -0.33 | 0.25 | -0.26 | -0.28 | -0.18 |
*p<0.05;
**p<0.01;
***p<0.001
1Composite variable of rating of energy, sleep, memory, fitness and appetite where higher scores denote more pronounced sickness behaviour
2Higher scores denotes better asthma-related quality of life
3Higher scores on self-rated health denote worse self-rated health
The cytokines values were z-transformed to facilitate interpretation of b-coefficients. All models were adjusted for age and BMI and included all available data points.