Table 3.

Comparison of immune typing of peripheral blood T lymphocytes in children (pg/mL, $\overline{\chi }$ ± s).

Group	Number of children (cases)	IL-2	IL-4	IL-6	IL-10	TNF-α	IFN-γ
Control group	30	4.18 ± 2.33	2.54 ± 0.74	8.29 ± 2.67	8.41 ± 1.19	1.35 ± 0.67	2.84 ± 1.13
Severe group	47	94.25 ± 19.64a	2.62 ± 0.68	67.61 ± 10.23a	25.78 ± 6.34a	7.72 ± 2.50a	28.96 ± 9.49a
Nonsevere group	168	23.71 ± 6.95ab	2.55 ± 0.65	19.48 ± 5.11b	15.20 ± 4.72ab	2.41 ± 1.08b	11.27 ± 4.25ab
F		1001.219	0.221	1257.006	135.728	284.715	260.205
P value		0.000	0.802	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Note: Compared with the control group, ^aP < 0.05; compared with the severe group, ^bP < 0.05.