Table 1.

Characteristics of assays for inflammatory markers in the current study.

	Assay Range	Analytical Sensitivity	Functional Sensitivity	Intra-Assay CV	Inter-Assay CV
CRP	25–1600 pg/mL	0.042 pg/mL	19.44 pg/mL	1.93%	3.58%
IL-1β	0.646–375 pg/mL	0.05 pg/mL	0.646 pg/mL	2.65%	4.98%
IL-6	0.633–488 pg/mL	0.06 pg/mL	0.633 pg/mL	3.85%	2.88%
IL-8	0.591–375 pg/mL	0.07 pg/mL	0.591 pg/mL	1.31%	3.12%
TNF-α	0.690–248 pg/mL	0.04 pg/mL	0.690 pg/mL	4.90%	3.19%