Table 2.

Correlation matrix of immune activation markers and GAC biomarkers. Pearson correlation coefficient (r) and p values are reported for each bivariate correlation. Significant (p < 0.05) correlations are indicated in bold text

	Syndecan-1	Hyaluronan	IL-10	IL-1b	IL-2	IL-4
Syndecan-1	1
Hyaluronan	0.42 0.0734	1
IL-10	0.1552 0.5258	0.5062 0.027	1
IL-1b	0.4303 0.0659	0.2176 0.3708	0.5437 0.0161	1
IL-2	− 0.1218 0.6194	− 0.206 0.3976	0.1353 0.5809	0.5066 0.0269	1
IL-4	0.7334 0.0004	0.1318 0.5908	0.0648 0.7923	0.5344 0.0184	0.0115 0.9626	1
IL-5	0.8741 < 0.001	0.2012 0.4089	0.081 0.7418	0.5839 0.0087	0.0029 0.9907	0.9468 <0.001
IL-6	0.7896 0.0001	0.5854 0.0085	0.2543 0.2934	0.5895 0.0079	− 0.1103 0.653	0.7829 0.0001
IL-8	0.8663 < 0.001	0.6374 0.0033	0.4231 0.0711	0.5795 0.0093	− 0.134 0.5843	0.7954  < 0.001
TNFα	0.1281 0.6012	0.8601 < 0.001	0.4799 0.0376	0.2117 0.3844	− 0.1937 0.4268	0.0163 0.9472