Table 4.

Correlations (Spearman’s rho coefficient) between frequency of CD4CD38HLADR+/CD8CD38HLADR+ cells and serum levels of eight cytokines for cases and controls.

Cytokines	CD4+CD38+HLADR+		CD4+CD38+HLADR+		CD8+CD38+HLADR+	CD8+CD38+HLADR+
	Cases	Controls	Cases	Controls	All patients	All patients
IL-2	−0.075	0.056	−0.491	0.049	0.008	−0.028
IL-4	−0.081	−0.047	−0.096	0.118	−0.062	0.007
IL-6	−0.047	0.235*	−0.041	0.127	0.104	0.039
IL-10	−0.045	−0.045	0.016	−0.074	−0.039	−0.017
Tumoral necrosis factor-alpha	0.63	0.267*	0.068	0.199	0.187*	0.151
Interferon gamma	0.019	0.015	−0.095	0.100	0.06	−0.09
Interferon-inducing protein-10	0.141	0.205*	−0.069	0.134	0.171*	0.054
Macrophage inflammatory proteins 1 alpha	−0.18	−0.006	0.144	−0.006	0.008	0.039

*p < 0.05 for the correlation between frequency of activated T cells and cytokines’ levels.