Effect of Integrated Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine on Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Patients
Table 4
Comparison of cytokine levels before and after treatment.
Project
Category
Before
After
Group A
Group B
Group A
Group B
Sleep quality
PSQI
8.70 ± 4.93
8.03 ± 4.06
0.539
8.80 ± 4.62
4.66 ± 2.31#∆
0.001
HAMA
10.20 ± 4.73
10.94 ± 4.98
0.523
8.83 ± 5.06
6.25 ± 2.70#∆
0.011
Cytokines (ng/ml)
IL-17A
7.970 ± 1.60
8.488 ± 1.48
0.447
6.393 ± 1.03
4.99 ± 1.44#∆
0.001
IFN-γ
1.423 ± 0.09
1.425 ± 0.14
0.256
0.975 ± 0.22
0.650 ± 0.21#∆
0.042
IL-6
33.19 ± 6.13
35.65 ± 3.47
0.199
32.26 ± 4.38
26.49 ± 4.89#∆
0.008
IL-10
89.20 ± 14.68
71.45 ± 14.48
0.480
155.74 ± 14.24
182.65 ± 13.27#
0.544
Note. Compared with that before treatment of group A, ; compared with that before treatment of group B, #; compared with that after treatment of group A, ∆.
