Table 3.

Serum levels of endocan, IL-1, TNF-α, VEGF, hs-CRP in patients with SLE and healthy control subjects.

Molecule	SLE patients, n = 36	Healthy controls n = 23
Endocan	122.2 (96.15–164.70) pg/ml 128 ±49.2 pg/ml	54 (29–85) pg/ml 64.3 ±54.5 pg/ml
IL-1 β	1.5 (1.3–1.75) pg/ml 3 ±6.6 pg/ml	1.7 (1.3–2) pg/ml 1.8 ±0.8 pg/ml
TNF-α	6.4 (5.5–7.6) pg/ml 7 ±3.1 pg/ml	5.3 (0.9–2) pg/ml 5.3 ±1.2 pg/ml
VEGF	274.45 (168.5–546.86) pg/ml 421 ±342.3 pg/ml	256.9 (160–456) pg/ml 338 ±258.2 pg/ml
hs-CRP	4.1 (1.4–10.5) μg/ml 6 ±5.1 μg/ml	0.5 (0.1–3) μg/ml 2.2 ±3.3 μg/ml

Results are displayed as median with the range and mean ± standard deviation.