At baseline, there was a significant difference between intervention conditions in IL-1β (F(2,146) = 3.21, p = 0.043); however, post-hoc Fisher Least Squared Differences (LSD) tests showed only a marginally significant difference between RT and HE at baseline (p = 0.074) and no condition differences in baseline IL-6 (F(2,145) = 0.73, p = 0.484) or TNF-α (F(2,146) = 0.39, p = 0.681). Here, TNF is linked to hereditary elliptocytosis.