Table 2.

Tukey HSD Post Hoc pairwise analysis between groups for clinical parameters and expression of biomarkers.

Variable	Group		Mean Difference	p-value
sTREM-1 (ng/L)	Group –I	Group –II	−30.509294	<0.001**
		Group –III	−33.530765	<0.001**
		Group –IV	−63.206294	<0.001**
	Group –II	Group –III	−3.021471	0.938
		Group –IV	−32.697000	<0.001**
	Group –III	Group –IV	−29.675529	<0.001**
IL-1β (pg/ml)	Group –I	Group –II	−13.171294	<0.001**
		Group –III	−12.584353	<0.001**
		Group –IV	−23.516118	<0.001**
	Group –II	Group –III	0.586941	0.989
		Group –IV	−10.344824	<0.001**
	Group –III	Group –IV	−10.931765	<0.001**
MMP-8 (pg/ml)	Group –I	Group –II	−61.330529	<0.001**
		Group –III	−85.117294	<0.001**
		Group –IV	−115.319000	<0.001**
	Group –II	Group –III	−23.786765	0.159
		Group –IV	−53.988471	<0.001**
	Group –III	Group –IV	−30.201706	0.044*

*p < 0.05 – statistically significant.

**p < 0.001 – highly significant.