Table 2.
Plasma concentrations of biomarkers of inflammationa among reproductive-aged women from the South African Study of Women and Babies (SOWB), 2010–2011 (n=416), by selected percentiles.
| Geometric means | Percentiles |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th | 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 95th | ||
| IgA | 193.92 | 111.00 | 123.00 | 154.00 | 196.00 | 249.00 | 293.00 | 341.00 |
| IgG | 1589.48 | 1133.50 | 1207.90 | 1341.00 | 1533.85 | 1801.00 | 2125.50 | 2723.40 |
| IgM | 166.26 | 92.70 | 101.10 | 126.35 | 159.50 | 217.65 | 298.70 | 347.70 |
| IL-1β | 0.56 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.62 | 1.35 | 2.47 | 3.24 |
| IL-6 | 2.22 | 0.47 | 0.69 | 1.23 | 2.23 | 4.02 | 7.04 | 9.82 |
| IL-8 | 2.14 | 0.45 | 0.57 | 1.06 | 2.04 | 4.62 | 8.76 | 11.04 |
| TNF-α | 8.80 | 3.03 | 3.89 | 5.82 | 8.48 | 13.82 | 20.79 | 25.28 |
| CRP | 7.15 | 0.41 | 0.77 | 2.64 | 7.60 | 23.50 | 62.80 | 93.88 |
| SAA | 14.98 | 1.47 | 2.77 | 5.97 | 15.29 | 39.47 | 97.86 | 170.00 |
| I-CAM | 0.83 | 0.27 | 0.33 | 0.51 | 0.78 | 1.32 | 2.19 | 2.93 |
| V-CAM | 1.17 | 0.40 | 0.47 | 0.66 | 1.18 | 1.92 | 2.86 | 3.76 |
Abbreviations: CRP, C Reactive Protein; Ig, immunoglobulins; I-CAM1, Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1; IL-1β, Interleukin-1β; IL-6, Interleukin-6; IL-8, Interleukin-8; SAA, Serum Amyloid A; TNF-α, Tumor Necrosis Factor-α; V-CAM1, Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1.
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IgA, IgG and IgM: mg/dL; IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-α: pg/ml; CRP, I-CAM, SAA and V-CAM: mg/L.