Research Article
Change of Scaling-Induced Proinflammatory Cytokine on the Clinical Efficacy of Periodontitis Treatment
Table 2
Baseline proinflammatory cytokine profiles of study subjects by treatment outcome strata.
| | NP group ( = 12) | ET group ( = 10) | valuea | Median (Q1–Q3) |
| IL-1 | 120.18 (12.58–167.16) | 67.97 (52.3–190.12) | 0.97 | IL-1 | 28.55 (3.15–119.49) | 5.99 (0.18–14.8) | 0.07 | IL-6 | 5.21 (1–9.46) | 1.24 (0.78–4.24) | 0.15 | IL-8 | 125.68 (50.05–184.49) | 50.8 (16.9–138.74) | 0.19 | TNF- | 0.00 (0.00–0.11) | 0.10 (0.00–0.12) | 0.18 | TNF- | 0.18 (0.16–0.21) | 0.21 (0.17–0.23) | 0.19 |
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Mann-Whitney U test.
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