Serum levels of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 vary based on diagnoses in individuals with lumbar intervertebral disc diseases

Table 5 Demographics factors in LBP participants based on diagnostic group

	DH	Other Dx	p-value
Number of subjects	72	35
Age (mean ± SD)	47 ± 14	58 ± 13	0.001**
Gender (% male, % female)	39%, 61%	37%, 63%	1.00
BMI (mean ± SD)	28.8 ± 6.0	29.5 ± 5.2	0.32
Duration of Symptoms (months, mean ± SD )	16 ± 31	36 ± 46	0.0002***
Smoking History (pk yrs, mean ± SD)	5 ± 9.2	10.5 ± 16.4	0.13
OA History (number of subjects, % of cohort)	9 (13%)	9 (26%)	0.10

DH: Disc Herniation; Other Dx: Other diagnoses including spinal stenosis (SS) and degenerative disc disease (DDD). Statistical analysis of differences between DH and Other Dx are presented with p-value
**p<0.005, ***p<0.0005

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