Table 3.

Comparison of Spearman correlation for cytokine concentrations.

Patient group	Cytokine	Cytokine	Spearman ρ	p-value
Control	MIP-1α	IL-12	−0.7531	0.0002***
Study	MIP-1α	IL-12	+0.5462	0.0535
Control	VEGF-A	IFN-γ	−0.5088	0.0278*
Study	VEGF-A	IFN-γ	+0.5612	0.0460*
Control	TNF-α	GM-CSF	−0.4642	0.0463*
Study	TNF-α	GM-CSF	+0.6446	0.0174*
Control	IL-1β	GM-CSF	−0.3647	0.1140
Study	IL-1β	GM-CSF	+0.7455	0.0003***

MIP: macrophage inflammatory protein; IL: interleukin; VEGF-A: vascular endothelial growth factor A; IFN : interferon; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-α; GM-CSF: granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.

Spearman correlation was calculated to determine the association of cytokine in the control and Mycoplasma or Ureaplasma study group (*p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001).