Inherited Variation in Cytokine, Acute Phase Response, and Calcium Metabolism Genes Affects Susceptibility to Infective Endocarditis

Figure 2

Measurement of plasma interleukin-1β, interleukin-12, and C-reactive protein levels in patients with infective endocarditis at the hospital admission and 7 days postoperation. Two-tailed Student’s t-test with further Tukey’s post hoc test to adjust for multiple comparisons; each dot is a measure from one patient, , n.s. is for not significant.