The Importance of Fever as a Predictive Symptom for the Potency of Host's Monocytes to Release Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Mediators

Table 2

Serum concentrations of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), IL-6, IL-10, and malondialdehyde (MDA) of 51 septic patients in relation to the time of blood sampling from advent of fever.

	Group A (n = 13) <12 hours	Group B (n = 16) 12–24 hours	Group C (n = 22) >24 hours
		Median (IQR)
TNF (pg/mL)	9.88 (9.40)	7.23 (7.54)	7.64 (4.11)
IL-6 (pg/mL)	94.3 (225.1)	65.1 (179.2)	55.4 (120.5)
IL-10 (pg/mL)	<12.5	<12.5	<12.5
MDA (TNF𝛼mol/mL)	0.80 (11.30)	2.87 (9.40)	4.75 (10.05)