Table 4.

Spearman correlations between serum concentations of UMFA and cytokines in HS-U and control groups

	IL-6	IL-8	IL-10	IFN-γ	TNF-α
HS-U patients (n=21)
UMFA	rho=−0.003, P=0.989	rho=0.219, P=0.339	rho= −0.400, P=0.072	rho= −0.396, P=0.076	rho= 0.213, P=0.354
IL-6		rho=0.359, P=0.110	rho= 0.390, P=0.081	rho= 0.374, P=0.095	rho= 0.258, P=0.259
IL-8			rho= 0.051, P=0.827	rho= −0.166, P=0.471	rho= 0.177, P=0.444
IL10				rho= 0.455, P=0.038	rho= 0.175, P=0.447
IFN-γ					rho= −0.335, P=0.137
Controls (n=54)
UMFA	rho= 0.193, P= 0.170	rho= 0.175, P=0.213	rho= −0.081, P=0.566	rho=−0.021, P=0.885	rho=−0.052, P=0.715
IL-6		rho= 0.423, P=0.001	rho= 0.629, P<0.001	rho= 0.460, P<0.001	rho= 0.217, P=0,115
IL-8			rho= 0.160, P=0.249	rho= 0.132, P=0.342	rho= 0.197, P=0.153
IL10				rho= 0.456, P=0.001	rho= 0.059, P=0.670
IFN-γ					rho= 0.170, P=0.219

rho= Spearman correlation index. Spearman correlations were not done in HS-NU due small number of patients (n=6).