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Umbilical cord and maternal plasma interleukin (IL)-8 scatter diagram with linear regression line (red line). Dashed line indicates the confidence interval of mean. There is a positive correlation between maternal and umbilical cord plasma IL-8 concentrations (Spearman’s correlation=0.42; p<0.001).
