highly significantp < 0.001
1 aii), indicating a highly significant difference (p < 0.001).
1 aii), indicating a highly significant difference (p < 0.001).
Another important finding was that male (615.6 ± 311.50 pg/ml) and female (701.5 ± 267.50 pg/ml) GAD patients showed no significant variation in serum IL-23 levels (p = 0.385, two-tailed student t-test). Association between different demographic and clinical covariates with GAD severity The correlation between IL-17A and GAD-7 scores was found to be statistically significant (r = 0.397, p = 0.032), with the correlation being most pronounced among females (r = 0.578, p = 0.048) and approaching significance among males (r = 0.459, p = 0.047) (Fig. 1 bi).