The influence of persistent pathogens on circulating levels of inflammatory markers: a cross-sectional analysis from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

BMC Public Health · 2010 · PMC2996373 · PMID 21083905

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of borderline significancep = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Seropositive pathogen burden was associated with higher circulating levels of IL-6 and fibrinogen but the associations were of borderline significance (p = 0.07 and 0.05 for trend, respectively).

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a positive trendno p-value reported

There was a positive trend of increasing age by number of pathogens.

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