Fig. 1.

Median and interquartile range of IL-6 (pg/ml) plasma values at baseline and at 1, 3 and 6 years postsurgery among women undergoing two bariatric surgery techniques. Repeated measures ANOVA followed by Tukey-Kramer. The symbol ¥ indicates the difference (p = 0.01) of the group at the indicated collection time compared to the other collection times. Bars marked with the same symbol are equal