Disease dependent qualitative and quantitative differences in the inflammatory response to ascites occurring in cirrhotics

Table 3 Mean levels of the plasma factors aligned from the highest to the lowest for each disease group

	Highest values → Lowest values
IL-1A	ETOH	Malignancy	HCV	Cardiac
	0.260	0.182	0.160	0.135
IL-1B	ETOH	Malignancy	HCV	Cardiac
	4.710	1.082	1.747	1.61
IL-2	Malignancy	ETOH	HCV	Cardiac
	2.690	2.498	1.203	1.025
IL-4	ETOH	HCV	Malignancy	Cardiac
	3.157	2.580	1.508	1.43
IL-6	HCV	Cardiac	Malignancy	ETOH
	164.430	129.700	109.392	83.791
IL-8	HCV	Malignancy	ETOH	Cardiac
	334.513	104.265	92.790	16.415
IL-10	HCV	Cardiac	ETOH	Malignancy
	1.620	1.415	1.335	1.117
MCP-1	HCV	Malignancy	ETOH	Cardiac
	326.407	116.052	111.130	88.35
IFN-γ	ETOH	Cardiac	Malignancy	HCV
	1.148	0.725	0.712	0.303
TNF-α	Cardiac	HCV	Malignancy	ETOH
	13.600	5.843	4.805	3.887
EGF	Cardiac	HCV	Malignancy	ETOH
	126.000	92.453	70.690	37.451
VEGF	HCV	Cardiac	Malignancy	ETOH
	194.347	41.470	20.523	11.658

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; IL: Interleukin; MCP-1: Monocyte chemotactic protein-1; IFN-γ: Interferon-γ; TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor-α; EGF: Epidermal growth factor; VEGF: Vascular endothelial growth factor.