Cytokines in Preterm Delivery: Proposal of a New Diagnostic Algorithm

Table 4

Predictive value of selected markers marked with discriminant analysis by stepwise forward selection method.

Biochemical marker	Wilks’s lambda	Partial Wilks’s	F		Tolerance	1-toler
IGFBP-1	0.668	0.891	6.447	0.014	0.813	0.187
PECAM-1	0.687	0.867	8.103	0.006	0.864	0.136
Eotaxin-1	0.617	0.965	1.917	0.172	0.846	0.154
BDNF	0.657	0.907	5.460	0.023	0.938	0.062
BLC	0.641	0.930	3.987	0.050	0.887	0.113
L-Selectin	0.627	0.950	2.784	0.101	0.767	0.233
VCAM-1	0.611	0.976	1.327	0.254	0.867	0.133
Eotaxin-2	0.586	0.983	0.904	0.346	0.737	0.263
E-Selectin	0.590	0.990	0.501	0.482	0.437	0.563
ICAM-1	0.586	0.984	0.844	0.362	0.859	0.141
IGFBP-2	0.596	0.100	0.008	0.931	0.773	0.227
MIP-1d	0.594	0.997	0.136	0.713	0.830	0.170
MIP-3b	0.596	0.100	0.003	0.959	0.908	0.092