Table 3.

Correlations between vitamins and cytokines/chemokines.

Vitamin	Retinol			Vitamin D
Factor	Correlation	p	r	Correlation	P	r
FKN	Negative	0.008	−0.59	-----	0.089	−0.39
Flt-3L	Negative	0.044	−0.47	-----	0.34	−0.22
G-CSF	Negative	0.011	−0.57	-----	0.22	−0.29
GM-CSF	Negative	0.023	−0.52	-----	0.40	−0.20
IFNα2	Negative	0.010	−0.58	-----	0.071	−0.41
IL−1RA	Negative	0.016	−0.55	-----	0.19	−0.31
IL-3	Negative	0.049	−0.46	-----	0.12	−0.36
IL-4	Negative	0.008	−0.59	-----	0.053	−0.44
IL-5	Negative	0.013	−0.56	-----	0.14	−0.34
IL-6	Negative	0.009	−0.58	-----	0.086	−0.39
IL-7	Negative	0.021	−0.53	-----	0.10	−0.38
IL-9	Negative	0.019	−0.53	-----	0.10	−0.38
IL-12p40	Negative	0.003	−0.65	Negative	0.044	−0.45
IL-12p70	Negative	0.006	−0.61	-----	0.071	−0.41
IL-13	Negative	0.025	−0.51	-----	0.22	−0.29
IL-15	Negative	0.003	−0.65	Negative	0.045	−0.45
IL-17A	Negative	0.002	−0.66	Negative	0.005	−0.60
MIP-1b	Negative	0.013	−0.56	-----	0.43	−0.19
TNFα	Negative	0.049	−0.46	-----	0.39	−0.21
TNFβ	Negative	0.015	−0.55	-----	0.12	−0.36

Legend. Correlations were tested between retinol or vitamin D and 38 cytokines/chemokines using the Spearman’s rank-based test. Listed are cytokines/chemokines that yielded a p value of <0.05 with either retinol or vitamin D. p denotes p-value, r denotes rank correlation.