LBP and infection: We therefore checked whether there is any correlation in prednisolone-treated patients between immune activation (CD8/CD38, sCD14, LBP, suPAR) and the duration of prednisolone medication or the (known) time of infection and found no correlation whatsoever for any of the markers (P values of correlations ranged between 0.2748 and 0.9399, data not shown).