Study on the Usefulness of APR Scores from the Viewpoint of Proinflammatory Cytokines

Table 1

Comparisons among proinflammatory cytokine levels at age 0 days (pg/mL).

(a)

		IL-1	IL-6	IL-8	IL-10	TNF
Group I	15	151.2 ± 175.4	8402.1 ± 11784.7	25554.1 ± 34672.7	297.5 ± 551.4	72.2 ± 66.9
Group F	17	49.5 ± 46.4	16574.1 ± 38524.3	2511.2 ± 5226.8	58.1 ± 58.8	34.6 ± 31.6
Group C	14	4.6 ± 7.1	68.5 ± 140.3	85.2 ± 118.7	169.0 ± 507.0	8.4 ± 8.6

Mean ± SD.

(b)

I vs	Group F	Group C	F vs	Group C
IL-1β	< 0.05	< 0.01	IL-1β	NS
IL-6	NS	NS	IL-6	NS
IL-8	< 0.05	< 0.05	IL-8	NS
IL-10	NS	NS	IL-10	NS
TNF-α	< 0.05	< 0.01	TNF-	NS

Group I: infection, Group F: fetal inflammatory response syndrome, Group C: control.