Dexmedetomidine Analgesia Effects in Patients Undergoing Dental Implant Surgery and Its Impact on Postoperative Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress

Table 2

The correlation analysis between VAS pain scores and plasma concentrations of SOD, MDA, TNF-α, and IL-6 at 2, 4 after drug administration.

Source	Dependent	Spearman	Sig.
	variable	correlation	(2-tailed)
VAS pain; scores	SOD	−0.649^** (2 h)	<0.001
		−0.585^** (4 h)	<0.001
	MDA	0.810^** (2 h)	<0.001
		0.660^** (4 h)	<0.001
	TNF-α	0.611^** (2 h)	<0.001
		0.642^** (4 h)	<0.001
	IL-6	0.518^** (2 h)	<0.001
		0.624^** (4 h)	<0.001

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).