Fig. 1

Cytokine levels for patients stratified following Lown criteria. Graphs show the mean +/− SEM values of values (expressed in pg/ml) for IL-17, IFN-γ, TNF, IL6, IL-2, IL-10 and IL-4 to Lown scoring classification (showed as risk of sudden death and non-arrhythmic uninfected control in bars). Significance both any group is marked with *, ** and *** in function of p values (*: >0.05 < 0.02; **: >0.02 < 0.01 and ***: >0.01). N value was 26 for Lown classification (17 low-risk vs. 9 high-risk). Male/female ratio were 4/5 for high-risk group and 5/12 for low-risk group and age mean were 56.222+/− 5.191 (high-risk group) and 53.588 +/− 11.138 (low-risk group). For additional information, the reader is referred to M&M section and Additional file 1