Evaluation of Systemic Genotoxic/Oxidative and Proinflammatory Effects in Workers of a Titanium Dioxide Production Plant

Table 8

Cytokine detection results analysed taking into account the specific task.

Markers/task		Mean	SD	value	Multiple comparisons
					Post hoc (Dunn’s test)	Adjusted values
IL-6 (pg/ml)
Bagging operators	4	0.58	0.23		Maintainers < technicians	0.001
Industrial cleaners	5	0.01	0.02		Office workers < technicians	0.002
Mobile operators	9	0.08	0.18		Mobile operators < technicians	0.005
Maintainers	13	0.05	0.08		Industrial cleaners < technicians	0.006
Technicians	9	0.66	0.31		Office workers < bagging operators	0.046
Office workers	5	0.00	0.00		Industrial cleaners < controls	0.014
External controls	18	0.48	0.18		Mobile operators < controls	0.008
					Maintainers < controls	0.001
					Office workers < controls	0.005
IL-8 (pg/ml)
Bagging operators	4	2.71	1.18	0.002 (K-W)
Industrial cleaners	5	0.77	1.04		Post hoc (Dunn’s test)	Adj. values
Mobile operators	9	1.02	0.89
Maintainers	13	1.72	1.84		Technicians > controls	0.001
Technicians	9	3.20	1.46
Office workers	5	1.46	1.86
External controls	18	1.23	2.71
TNFα (pg/ml)
Bagging operators	4	2.70	3.89	0.016 (K-W)	Post hoc did not reveal any significance among the tasks
Industrial cleaners	5	0.00	0.00
Mobile operators	9	0.00	0.00
Maintainers	13	0.73	2.65
Technicians	9	0.95	1.23
Office workers	5	0.00	0.00
External controls	18	0.31	1.14

Pairwise comparisons were performed using Dunn’s procedure with a Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. Adjusted values are presented.