Figure 1. Proinflammatory and Endothelial Mediators in
Post-COVID Patients.
Proinflammatory mediators (a) and angiogenesis-associated factors (b)
are elevated in sera from patients 3-6 months and 6-9 months post-COVID
hospital discharge compared to levels in sera from healthy controls.
Using ANOVA, the differences are statistically significant for CRP
(p=0.018), SAA (p=0.007), IL-6 (p=0.001), IL-8 (p=0.001), MCP-1
(p=0.040), MCP-4 (p=0.017), IL-1RA (p=0.001), IL-15 (p=0.031), IL-16
(p=0.034), VEGF-A (p=0.011), Tie-2 (p=0.046), sICAM-1 (p=0.040) and bFGF
(p=0.001). Results are illustrated on a log scale and the mean +standard error are indicated for each group.