Journal of Inflammation

Table 2 Differences in peripheral blood and muscle gene expression levels of adipokines between adult dermatomyositis patients and non-disease adult controls*

From: Adipokine gene expression in peripheral blood of adult and juvenile dermatomyositis patients and their relation to clinical parameters and disease activity measures

	Peripheral blood			Muscle
	Adult DM	Non-disease adult controls	P Value	Adult DM	Non-disease adult controls	P Value
	(N = 21)	(N = 5)		(N = 5)	(N = 5)
Leptin	0.7 (0.6, 0.8)	0.8 (0.7, 0.8)	0.49	1.5 (0.9, 2.5)	1.4 (0.5, 1.9)	0.60
Adiponectin	0.1 (0.1, 12.1)	0.2 (0.0, 12.4)	0.63	1.7 (0.9, 4.6)	1.3 (0.8, 2.0)	0.60
Resistin	1.4 (0.9, 2.8)	0.6 (0.5, 2.5)	0.18	23.2 (7.7, 40.4)	2.6 (2.5, 7.4)	0.047
Visfatin	1.9 (1.7, 2.5)	0.3 (0.2, 1.1)	0.004	1.9 (1.8, 2.7)	1.0 (1.0, 1.1)	0.08
IL-6	0.4 (0.3, 0.7)	1.4 (0.7, 1.6)	0.06	2.9 (1.7, 4.0)	1.0 (0.8, 1.1)	0.047
TNF-α	0.7 (0.5, 0.8)	0.8 (0.7, 1.5)	0.28	1.8 (1.1, 2.4)	1.0 (0.9, 1.2)	0.25

*Values are presented as median (25^th percentile, 75^th percentile). Gene expression levels of adipokines were normalized to the mean of age-matched controls. P-value is from Wilcoxon rank sum test.

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