Cytokine profiles and diagnoses in elderly, hospitalized psychiatric patients

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Correlation between cytokines and No depression (p-level > 0.01 excluded)

Cytokine	Correlation coefficient*	p	FDR-p**	Significant***	Eta²****
IL-2	0.268	0.008	0.0060	No	0.072
bFGF	0.271	0.008	0.0056	No	0.074
IL-1ra	0.271	0.008	0.0052	No	0.074
IL-1b	0.283	0.005	0.0048	No	0.080
IL-5	0.288	0.004	0.0044	Yes	0.083
IL-12	0.289	0.004	0.0040	Yes	0.083
IL-6	0.290	0.004	0.0036	Yes	0.084
TNF-a	0.295	0.004	0.0028	Yes	0.087
IL-7	0.306	0.002	0.0024	Yes	0.093
IL-10	0.321	0.001	0.0020	Yes	0.103
G-CSF	0.322	0.001	0.0016	Yes	0.104
INF-g	0.334	0.001	0.0012	Yes	0.111
IL-4	0.348	0.001	0.0008	Yes	0.121
IL-8	0.349	0.000	0.0004	Yes	0.122

^*Spearman Rho; ^**False detection rate adjusted p-value, q-level 0.01, based on p-values of all 25 cytokines; ^***FDR-adjusted p-criterion of 0.0044 ^****Effect size. Based on Mann-Whitney Z-statistics of all 25 cytokines

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