Lower serum levels of interleukin-6 in a population sample with symptoms of depression than in a population sample without symptoms of depression

Abstract

We compared the levels of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-10 and TNF-alfa in 2 population samples split according to self-reported depression on the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZSDS). The group with high score in ZSDS (n=27) had lower IL-6 (p=0.049) than the group with a low score in ZSDS (n=16).

Keywords

• Lower
• serum
• levels
• interleukin-6
• with
• than
• population
• sample
• without
• symptoms
• depression