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Circulating interleukin-6 (IL-6) is increased in diabetes patients who are in general also at greater cardiovascular risk. Thus, we investigated whether IL-6 is associated with incident primary cardiovascular events and improves risk prediction in diabetes patients.Serum IL-6 levels were measured at baseline in 1072 diabetic participants of the ESTHER study. During 5years of follow-up, 84 experienced...
Objective: Several studies show that the inflammatory component in atherosclerosis may contribute to increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a key pro-inflammatory and immune-stimulatory cytokine of presumed importance for CVD and the metabolic syndrome. Methods and results: In this case-control study, 1179 surviving myocardial infarction (MI) cases and 1528 healthy...
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