Influence of Vitamin D Metabolites on Plasma Cytokine Concentrations in Endurance Sport Athletes and on Multiantigen Stimulated Cytokine Production by Whole Blood and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Cultures

Table 2

Circulating cytokine concentrations between high-level and low-level vitamin D status groups.

	High-level vitamin D	Low-level vitamin D	𝑃
IL-2 (pg/mL)	3.8 (2.6–4.5)	2.5 (0.0–5.4)	0.186
IL-4 (pg/mL)	1.9 (1.8–2.3)	1.8 (1.5–2.0)	0.127
IL-6 (pg/mL)	1.3 (1.0–1.9)	0.9 (0.7–1.5)	0.218
IL-10 (pg/mL)	0.7 (0.6–1.6)	0.6 (0.5–0.8)	0.020
IFN-𝛾 (pg/mL)	0.9 (0.6–1.4)	0.5 (0.0–0.7)	0.004
TNF-𝛼 (pg/mL)	2.6 (1.8–3.2)	2.4 (2.0–3.3)	0.825
IL-1𝛽 (pg/mL)	4.5 (3.3–5.7)	3.9 (2.8–7.2)	0.912

Data are median and IQR.
𝑃 value from Mann-Whitney 𝑈-test is shown in right hand column.