Impact of placental malaria on maternal, placental and fetal cord responses and its role in pregnancy outcomes in women from Blue Nile State, Sudan

Table 3 Correlations between maternal plasma levels of cytokines, maternal hemoglobin and birth weight

Variables	Hemoglobin	Birth weight	IL4	IL 6	IL10	IL17A	IFN-γ
	r	r	r	r	r	r	r
	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Hemoglobin	1.000	0.749	−0.544	0.430	− 0.478	0.130	0.171
Hemoglobin	1.000	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.078	0.020
Birth weight	0.749	1.000	− 0.525	0.455	− 0.484	0.129	− 0.233
Birth weight	< 0.001	1.000	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.080	0.001
IL4	− 0.544	− 0.525	1.000	− 0.476	0.438	0.034	− 0.142
IL4	< 0.001	< 0.001	1.000	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.647	0.054
IL 6	0.430	0.455	− 0.476	1.000	− 0.449	0.151	0.204
IL 6	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	1.000	< 0.001	0.040	0.005
IL10	− 0.478	− 0.484	0.438	− 0.449	1.000	–0.110	− 0.056
IL10	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	1.000	0.135	0.448
IL17A	0.130	0.129	0.034	0.151	− 0.110	1.000	0.063
IL17A	0.078	0.080	0.647	0.040	0.135	1.000	0.395
IFN-γ	0.171	− 0.233	− 0.142	0.204	− 0.056	0.063	1.000
IFN-γ	0.020	0.001	0.054	0.005	0.448	0.395	1.000

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