Sir,

In the Tables of our article, we gave the values of CRP, IL-6, and VCAM-1 as medians and interquartile ranges due to the skewed distribution of these markers. Giving the values in actual serum concentrations enables other investigators to compare their findings to ours. After log transformation to correct skewness, these variables conformed in a satisfactory manner to Normal distribution and were therefore analysed with parametric tests. We did not give the values of the means and standard deviations of the log transformed values because it would not be clinically useful. We trust the medians and interquartile ranges are enough to describe the levels and variances of the measured values.