Table 2: Correlation between cytokine/chemokine gene expression in circulating leukocytes with soluble protein and with mortality.

Significant p values are indicated in bold and italic font.

	with soluble protein		with mortality
Cytokine	R-squared	P-value	P-value
RANTES	0.2318	<0.01**	0.28
EGF	0.3277	<0.001***	0.25
IL-1ra	0.0729	0.10	0.86
IL-8	0.0007	0.87	0.54