Clinical Study

Serum Interleukin-4 and Total Immunoglobulin E in Nonatopic Alopecia Areata Patients and HLA-DRB1 Typing

Table 3

Comparison between IgE and IL4 levels in patients with disease duration less and more than 1 year and controls using Kruskal-Wallis test.

Duration classIgE (IU/ml)IL4 (Pg/ml)

Less than 1 yearMedian34.028.0
SEM9.063.02

More than 1 yearMedian112.051.0
SEM19.954.19

ControlMedian21.112.0
SEM6.721.03

Kruskal-Wallis20.13540.539

value<.001**<.001**

SEM: Standard error of mean
**statistically highly significant difference