Clinical Study
Vitamin D and Serum Cytokines in a Randomized Clinical Trial
Table 2
Laboratory values.
| | Active () | Placebo () | Rank-sum -value | Cytokine | Median baseline value (in pg/ml) | Median percent change (12 weeks) | -value (signed-rank test) | Median baseline value (in pg/ml) | Median percent change (12 weeks) | -value (signed-rank test) |
| GM-CSF | 5.91 | | .0001 | 4.78 | | .0007 | .53 | IFN- | 130.8 | | .0001 | 115.2 | | .0011 | .41 | IL-2 | 2.13 | | .70 | 2.15 | | .52 | .96 | IL-4 | 6.10 | | .001 | 8.26 | | .006 | .47 | IL-5 | 4.88 | | .49 | 4.53 | | .66 | .50 | IL-6 | 2.19 | | .37 | 2.75 | | .0963 | .61 | IL-8 | 16.3 | | .0001 | 24.1 | | .0210 | .21 | IL-10 | 6.82 | | .0001 | 5.12 | | .0401 | .02 | IL-13 | 0.604 | | .0104 | 0.500 | | .22 | .21 | TNF- | 5.64 | | .21 | 7.60 | | .0542 | .64 |
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