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Table 10 Abnormality rates of inflammatory cytokines among the BD, atypical BD and simple anxiety groups

From: Do some anxiety disorders belong to the prodrome of bipolar disorder? A clinical study combining retrospective and prospective methods to analyse the relationship between anxiety disorder and bipolar disorder from the perspective of biorhythms

Variables

BD (n = 48)

Atypical (n = 63)

Anxiety (n = 111)

χ 2a

χ 2b

χ 2c

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

IL-6

9(18.8)

9(14.3)

3(2.7)

0.176

4.832*

7.384**

IL-8

4(8.3)

6(9.5)

0(0)

0.016

7.074**

7.132**

IL-10

0(0)

0(0)

0(0)

–

–

–

TNF

21(43.8)

30(47.6)

15(13.5)

0.070

8.927**

18.203***

CRP

3(6.3)

3(4.8)

0(0)

0.052

6.993**

5.356*

  1. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001
  2. arepresents the comparison between the BD group and the atypical group; brepresents the comparison between the BD group and the anxiety group; crepresents the comparison between the atypical group and the anxiety group
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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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