Table 3.

Peripheral inflammation in the blood of PD patients and healthy controls

	Control n = 22	PD n = 22	P
Total T cells/lymphocytes	73.24% ± 8.78%	72.95% ± 7.47%	0.976
Th1/total T cells	9.81% ± 2.42%	12.85% ± 3.19%	0.008*
Th2/total T cells	3.25% ± 2.51%	3.15% ± 1.46%	0.842
Th17/total T cells	1.65% ± 0.79%	2.10% ± 1.53%	0.743
IFNγ	6.30 ± 2.63	5.62 ± 2.35	0.375
TNFα	1.88 ± 0.38	1.92 ± 0.42	0.707
IL6	0.746 ± 0.462	0.659 ± 0.432	0.343a
IL8	7.02 ± 2.86	7.89 ± 2.82	0.320
IL10	0.083 ± 0.052	0.202 ± 0.195	0.002*a
IL12p70	0.078 ± 0.117	0.070 ± 0.049	0.762
IL22	0.605 ± 0.652	0.440 ± 0.354	0.921a
IL17A	0.395 ± 0.204	0.577 ± 0.352	0.045*

P p-value, PD Parkinson’s disease, Th T helper cells

*P < 0.05

^aCalculated with Mann–Whitney test