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Table 2.

Correlations of inflammatory markers with resilience and QOL in PTSD patients vs. healthy controls.

	PTSD patients (n = 56)			Healthy controls (n = 73)
	Resilience (CD-RISC)	Physical QOL (WHOQOL-BREF)	Psychological QOL (WHOQOL-BREF)	Resilience (CD-RISC)	Physical QOL (WHOQOL-BREF)	Psychological QOL (WHOQOL-BREF)
IL-6	−0.36*	−0.15^a	−0.25^a	0.03	−0.11	0.06
hsTNF-α	−0.29^†,a	−0.23^a	−0.26^a	0.16	0.07	0.22
hsCRP	−0.18	−0.16^a	−0.37^*,a	0.01	0.06	0.08

Abbreviations: PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder; IL-6, interleukin-6; hsTNF-α, high-sensitivity tumor necrosis factor-α; hsCRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; CD-RISC, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale; WHOQOL-BREF, World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF.

Notes: ^†p < 0.05; ^*p < 0.01.

Correlations were calculated using Spearman’s ρ.

^an = 55.