marginal significanceP=0.033
Serum IL-6 levels between patients with CMM (median, 5.68 pg/ml; mean ± SEM), 20.57±5.89 pg/ml) and the control subjects (median, 4.17 pg/ml; mean ± SEM, 5.02±0.74 pg/ml) differed with marginal significance (P=0.033; Fig. 6 ).