Mean (SD) fatigue levels of patients with serum cytokine levels below and above the detection limit
| IL2 (U/ml) | IL6 (pg/ml) | IL10 (pg/ml) | TNFα (pg/ml) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Below | Above | p | Below | Above | p | Below | Above | p | Below | Above | p | |
| The numbers of patients with serum cytokine levels below and above the detection limits of the assays were 52 and 8 for IL2, 55 and 5 for IL6, 41 and 19 for IL10, and 10 and 50 for TNFα, respectively; the range of the fatigue subscales is 4–20. | ||||||||||||
| General fatigue | 16.7 (4.4) | 18.0 (3.0) | 0.38 | 16.7 (4.3) | 18.0 (3.5) | 0.55 | 16.5 (4.7) | 17.5 (2.8) | 0.56 | 17.0 (3.6) | 16.8 (4.4) | 0.73 |
| Physical fatigue | 14.9 (3.9) | 15.5 (4.1) | 0.67 | 14.9 (4.0) | 15.6 (2.7) | 0.72 | 14.6 (4.4) | 15.7 (2.5) | 0.39 | 15.6 (4.4) | 14.8 (3.8) | 0.52 |
| Reduced activity | 13.6 (4.3) | 13.8 (4.9) | 0.90 | 12.5 (4.3) | 14.4 (5.3) | 0.69 | 13.3 (4.7) | 14.3 (3.6) | 0.44 | 14.3 (5.3) | 13.5 (4.2) | 0.54 |
| Reduced motivation | 11.5 (3.8) | 12.4 (4.7) | 0.58 | 11.4 (3.9) | 14.2 (2.9) | 0.11 | 11.0 (3.8) | 12.9 (3.8) | 0.04 | 12.3 (3.6) | 11.5 (4.0) | 0.64 |
| Mental fatigue | 12.6 (5.0) | 12.9 (5.9) | 0.88 | 12.9 (5.0) | 8.8 (4.4) | 0.08 | 12.5 (5.5) | 12.9 (4.2) | 0.74 | 13.0 (5.2) | 12.5 (5.1) | 0.80 |