Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Waltham, MA, USA.
The Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA.
Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2022 Feb 17;30(2):457-462. doi: 10.1080/09273948.2020.1815799. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
To examine the diagnostic and prognostic roles of serum interleukin-6 levels in patients with uveitis.
This was a retrospective observational case series. Demographic and clinical characteristics were compared between Group One (sixty patients) with normal serum IL-6 levels and Group Two (twenty patients) with high serum interleukin-6 levels.
Mean IL-6 level was 1.77 ± 0.97 pg/ml and 10.2 ± 9.7 pg/ml in Group One and Group Two respectively. Age, presence of systemic disease, and mean number of flare-ups were statistically significant ( = .015, = .000, = .03, respectively). Multivariate analysis was performed on variables that were statistically significant in univariate analysis and showed that three variables had significant correlation with IL-6 levels in both groups: systemic disease (OR = 10.83, < .001), Age (OR = 0.95, = .03) and number of flare-ups (OR = 2.9, = .02).
Serum IL-6 levels can provide diagnostic and prognostic information in regard to the course of disease and its treatment.
探讨血清白细胞介素-6(IL-6)水平在葡萄膜炎患者中的诊断和预后作用。
这是一项回顾性观察性病例系列研究。比较了血清 IL-6 水平正常的第 1 组(60 例)和血清白细胞介素-6 水平升高的第 2 组(20 例)患者的人口统计学和临床特征。
第 1 组和第 2 组的平均 IL-6 水平分别为 1.77±0.97pg/ml 和 10.2±9.7pg/ml。年龄、合并系统性疾病以及平均发作次数在统计学上均有显著差异( =0.015, =0.000, =0.03,分别)。对单因素分析中具有统计学意义的变量进行多变量分析,结果显示,两组中三个变量与 IL-6 水平均有显著相关性:系统性疾病(OR=10.83, <0.001)、年龄(OR=0.95, =0.03)和发作次数(OR=2.9, =0.02)。
血清 IL-6 水平可提供有关疾病过程及其治疗的诊断和预后信息。