Correlation between TLR9 Expression and Cytokine Secretion in the Clinical Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Table 1

Clinical characteristics for the patients enrolled in this study.

Information	Case group		Control group
	Total	value	Total	value
Number of patients	39		27
Age (years)	33.8 ± 14.7 (16–65)		36.7 ± 15.1 (21–60)
Gender (male/female)	9/30		8/19
Site
Kidney	26
Lung	9
Heart	12
Skin	15
Stage
Active stage (≥3)	27
Remittent stage (<3)	12

Stands for the mean ± SEM (range).