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Published in final edited form as: J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2020 Mar-Apr;31(2):249–254. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000125

Table 2.

Inflammatory Cytokine Plasma Concentrations (pg/mL)

	Total	Female	Male	P-value
IFN-γ^a	2.755 (2.464)	3.799 (7.616)	2.269 (0.999)	.152
IL-10^a	0.185 (0.281)	0.292 (0.256)	0.113 (0.206)	.038^*
IL-12p70	0.106 (0.139)	0.073 (0.107)	0.1461 (0.170)	.261
IL-6	0.892 (0.548)	0.878 (0.619)	0.910 (0.484)	.941
IL-8^a	4.493 (3.832)	4.409 (4.722)	4.576 (3.581)	.824
TNF-α	2.876 (1.275)	3.279 (1.520)	2.384 (0.690)	.131

Note: Entries represent mean (standard deviation) unless otherwise noted; p-values from Mann-Whitney U tests by sex;

p < 0.05;

IFN-γ = interferon gamma; IL-10 = interleukin 10; IL-12p70 = interleukin 12 active heterodimer; IL-6 = interleukin 6; IL-8 = interleukin 8; TNF-α = tumor necrosis factor-α.

^a.

Median (interquartile range) used for skewed data