Clinical Study
Plasma Cytokine Levels in Fibromyalgia and Their Response to 15 Weeks of Progressive Resistance Exercise or Relaxation Therapy
Table 2
Cytokine levels at baseline in plasma from women with fibromyalgia (FM) and healthy controls (HC).
| Cytokine | FM | HC | -value |
| IFN-γ | 9.9 (9.3) | 9.3 (10.1) | 0.408 | IL-1β | 0.8 (1.8) | 1.4 (2.0) | 0.001 | IL-2 | 2.9 (3.9) | 2.4 (2.4) | 0.041 | IL-6 | 2.0 (2.3) | 1.6 (1.5) | 0.009 | IL-8 | 1.4 (2.2) | 0.9 (1.9) | 0.150 | IL-10 | 7.9 (8.0) | 7.6 (7.2) | 0.415 | IL-17A | 9.8 (8.6) | 7.9 (7.8) | 0.151 | TNF-α | 4.3 (2.1) | 3.6 (2.6) | 0.013 | IL-1ra | 33.0 (116.0) | 41.5 (74.9) | 0.372 | IP-10 | 398.5 (229.9) | 346.4 (254.4) | 0.013 | MCP-1 | 310.3 (136.8) | 298.7 (115.4) | 0.627 | Eotaxin | 107.5 (50.1) | 97.9 (40.9) | 0.024 |
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Data are presented as median (interquartile range). Italic figures denote significant differences (Mann–Whitney U test; ). |