Fig. 2

Serum levels of inflammatory markers. IL-6 shown as Mean ± SD, others as median (IQR). Independent Samples t-test was used for IL-6, and Mann-Whitney U test for others. A group comparison was made using a paired-samples t-test for IL-6; this was made by Wilcoxon for the others. * P < 0.05, # P < 0.01