Table 2.
Scheffe’s multiple comparison test for MIP-1α and MCP-1 and the ANCOVA test result after controlling age of the subjects.
| Comparison |
Mean difference | P-value | ANCOVA test result |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Mean | Source | F-value | P-value | ||
| MIP-1α | ||||||
| Group 1 | Group 2 | −11.3320* | .000 | Age | 0.315 | 0.576 |
| Group 3 | −28.1440* | .000 | Group | 70.207 | 0.000* | |
| Group 2 | Group 3 | −16.8120* | .000 | |||
| MCP-1 | ||||||
| Group 1 | Group 2 | −176.1320* | .000 | Age | 1.623 | 0.207 |
| Group 3 | −550.1240* | .000 | Group | 75.321 | 0.000* | |
| Group 2 | Group 3 | −373.9920* | .000 | |||
*
P value statistically significant.