Selected Inflammatory and Metabolic Markers in Psoriatic Patients Treated with Goeckerman Therapy

Figure 1

The variation in CRP values. (a) depicts intergroup comparisons of serum levels of CRP using Wilcoxon rank sum test (patients before and after GT versus controls). Patients showed before and after GT significantly higher CRP levels than controls (). (b) (scatter plot) depicts serum CRP levels before and after GT in patients. Pairwise comparison (Wilcoxon signed rank test) indicated a decrease of the CRT level (). For smokers (black dots) and nonsmokers (open circles) statistics see the plot legend. All together 32 dots represent 64 measurements; each dot belongs to one patient. The top histogram shows data distribution before the treatment; the right side histogram corresponds to the posttreatment values distribution.

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