Table 5.
Correlations (Spearman’s rho coefficient) observed between T cells activation markers and cytokines levels, according to the presence of traditional cardiovascular risk in HIV patients on stable therapy.
| Cytokines | CD4CD38HLADR+ |
CD8CD38HLADR+ |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cholesterol | Hypertension | Cholesterol | Hypertension | |
| IL-2 | −0.630* | −0.008 | −0.227 | −0.026 |
| IL-4 | 0.066 | −0.002 | 0.246 | 0.030 |
| IL-6 | −0.561* | 0.117 | −0.196 | 0.110 |
| IL-10 | −0.289 | 0.033 | −0.011 | 0.073 |
| Tumoral necrosis factor-alpha | 0.095 | 0.158 | 0.502 | 0.110 |
| Interferon gamma | −0.404 | 0.151 | −0.241 | 0.016 |
| Interferon-inducing protein-10 | −0.164 | 0.271* | −0.323 | 0.130 |
| Macrophage inflammatory proteins 1 alpha | −0.221 | −0.008 | −0.095 | 0.215 |
*p < 0.05 for the correlation between frequency of activated T cells and cytokines’ levels.