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. 2019 Dec 5;143(1):47–54. doi: 10.1093/brain/awz354

Table 1.

Associations between each analyte and peak DRS scores and postoperative change in NfL

Association with peak DRS Association with rise in NfL
Analyte ΔR2 t-value DF P-value Bonferroni ΔR2 t-value DF P-value Bonferroni
IL-1B 0.060 2.508 89 0.014 0.153 0.061 2.942 85 0.004 0.042
IL-1ra 0.024 0.888 89 0.377 1.000 0.057 1.876 85 0.064 0.640
IL-2 0.014 0.925 89 0.357 1.000 0.060 2.379 85 0.020 0.196
IL-4 0.014 1.051 89 0.296 1.000 0.022 1.277 85 0.205 1.000
IL-6 0.008 0.723 89 0.471 1.000 0.027 1.642 85 0.104 1.000
IL-8 0.208 4.422 89 <0.001 <0.001 0.222 5.427 85 <0.001 <0.001
IL-10 0.126 2.071 89 0.041 0.454 0.163 3.501 85 0.001 0.007
IL-12p70 0.002 0.276 89 0.783 1.000 0.034 0.986 85 0.327 1.000
MCP-1 0.069 2.529 89 0.013 0.145 0.063 2.264 85 0.026 0.261
TNFa <0.001 0.172 89 0.864 1.000 0.037 1.543 85 0.127 1.000
NfL 0.199 3.408 85 0.001 0.011 - - - - -

Peak DRS or rise in NfL were regressed on each analyte, individually, while statistically controlling for age and sex. Effect sizes were quantified as ΔR2, i.e. the proportion of the total variance in the outcome explained by this predictor.