Table 3.

Correlation between neutrophil count and analyte concentrations in plasma for patients with different degree of lung damage (CXR) and Mtb load (GeneXpert) at baseline.

Analyte	Lung damage				Mtb load
	Mild		Severe		Low		High
	rho	p-value	rho	p-value	rho	p-value	rho	p-value
MMP1	0.16	ns	0.16	ns	0.20	ns	0.18	ns
MMP3	0.13	ns	0.26	ns	0.26	ns	0.11	ns
MMP8	0.46	2.00E−03	0.40	2.10E−03	0.27	ns	0.65	2.80E−06
MMP9	−0.13	ns	0.26	4.10E−02	0.04	ns	0.29	ns
MPO	−0.13	ns	0.10	ns	−0.18	ns	0.37	1.50E−02
S1000A8	0.39	9.70E−03	0.49	8.20E−05	0.41	3.50E−03	0.59	2.60E−05
S100A9	0.39	1.00E−02	0.27	4.00E−02	0.26	ns	0.47	1.40E−03
IL8	0.06	ns	0.26	4.70E−02	0.09	ns	0.30	ns
IL10	0.28	ns	0.38	3.80E−03	0.20	ns	0.42	6.40E−03
IL12/23(p40)	0.18	ns	0.35	6.40E−03	0.13	ns	0.50	7.20E−04
GM-CSF	0.27	ns	0.50	5.40E−05	0.34	1.50E−02	0.51	5.50E−04
TNF	0.18	ns	0.45	4.10E−04	0.38	7.30E−03	0.37	1.50E−02
IFNγ	0.18	ns	0.43	8.20E−04	0.21	ns	0.46	1.90E−03

ns, not significant; rho, spearman’s rank coefficient.