On the other hand, participants with CSX and healthy controls were not significantly different with respect to the genotype distributions of IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-10 genes.
The plasma levels of these inflammatory factors in CgA+ were significantly higher than those in CagA- (CSX: IL-6: 43.05 ± 5.04 vs 23.97 ± 4.58 and TNF-α: 31.43 ± 3.13 vs 16.47 ± 2.93, CONTROLS: IL-6: 3.52 ± 1.39 vs 2.90 ± 0.67 and TNF-α: 5.39 ± 1.17 vs 2.22 ± 0.43, respectively; p < 0.05).