Immune markers (concentration in pg/mL for all except IgA in mg/mL)† | Concentration of immune markers# | Intra-class correlation comparing serum and whey | p-value | Spearman correlation between serum and whey | p-value | |||||
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Serum (N = 161) | Whey (N = 115) | |||||||||
Proportion of samples with detectable levels % (n) | median | 5%, 95% | Proportion of samples with detectable levels % (n) | median | 5%, 95% | |||||
IL-13 | 50.0 (80) | 1.12 | 0.02, 9.50 | 70.4 (81) | 0.46 | 0, 5.31 | 0.66 | <0.0001 | 0.58 | <0.0001 |
CXCL8 | 30.5 (39) | 2.11 | 0.42, 8.49 | 79.8 (67) | 5.60 | 0.40, 265.07 | 0.02 | 0.87 | −0.44 | <0.0001 |
IL-6 | 30.5 (39) | 2.11 | 1.06, 27.17 | 30.9 (26) | 1.06 | 0.21, 20.64 | 0.36 | 0.002 | 0.31 | 0.007 |
IL-5 | 70.3 (90) | 1.06 | 0.03, 2.29 | 73.8 (62) | 0.10 | 0, 2.12 | 0.64 | <0.0001 | 0.72 | <0.0001 |
IFN-γ | 55.3 (89) | 3.89 | 1.06, 174.22 | 40.9 (47) | 1.59 | 1.07, 102.53 | 0.50 | <0.0001 | 0.48 | <0.0001 |
CXCL10 | 97.5 (157) | 169.18 | 1.91, 2956.89 | 93.9 (108) | 270.25 | 1.91, 10184.64 | 0.35 | 0.002 | 0.26 | 0.007 |
TGF-β1 | 89.3 (75/84) | 23078.87 | 7.7, 45143.40 | 93.0 (80/86) | 600.88 | 7.7, 1823.90 | 0.55 | <0.0001 | 0.31 | 0.006 |
IgA | 100 (86/86) | 5.10 | 1.98, 8.53 | 100 (89/89) | 4.35 | 0.13, 2931.48 | 0.07 | 0.18 | −0.43 | <0.0001 |