IL6, interleukin 6, 3569

N. diseases: 2367; N. variants: 22
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Thus, these two SNPs in the promoter region and intron 3 of the IL-6 gene might play a role in the blood pressure regulation and progression of atherosclerosis in the Japanese. 15969253 2005
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The crude odds ratios (ORs) and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to estimate the association between the IL-6 gene -174G>C polymorphism and atherosclerosis ( AS ) risk. 23954871 2013
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 promoter polymorphism modulates the effects of heavy alcohol consumption on early carotid artery atherosclerosis: the Carotid Atherosclerosis Progression Study (CAPS). 12574550 2003
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Polymorphisms in the IL6 gene in Asian Indian families with premature coronary artery disease--the Indian Atherosclerosis Research Study. 18449426 2008
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to explore the relation between abdominal fat distribution and some inflammatory risk factors of atheromatosis and IL-6 174G_C gene polymorphism in non-obese healthy subjects. 19569017 2009
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Stromelysin-1 and interleukin-6 gene promoter polymorphisms are determinants of asymptomatic carotid artery atherosclerosis. 11116068 2000
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recently, a common polymorphism of the IL-6 gene promoter, influencing the transcription rate of the gene, has been described and associated with atherosclerosis of carotid and coronary arteries. 12217290 2002
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Thus, these two SNPs in the promoter region and intron 3 of the IL-6 gene might play a role in the blood pressure regulation and progression of atherosclerosis in the Japanese. 15969253 2005
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE IL6 -174 allele G homozygozity associates with beneficial profile of early predictors of atherosclerosis such as high CAC, HDL-C and apoA1 as well as low systolic and diastolic blood pressure in men. 18774574 2009
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our findings support a role for the interleukin-6-174G>C polymorphism in increased risk of atherosclerosis in individuals with chronic stress. 24630186 2014
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Although the IL-6 -174G/C promoter polymorphism has been associated with carotid artery atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, its relation to ischemic stroke is unclear. 17916761 2007
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Growing evidence suggests that polymorphisms at position -174 and -572 in interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene are associated with various manifestations of atherosclerosis. 18279814 2008
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results support a role of IL6 -174 gene polymorphism in the development of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with RA. 20149313 2010
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Because levels of inflammatory cytokines are markedly elevated in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), we hypothesized that genotypic variations in the interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene are a cause of systemic inflammatory states and atherosclerosis in South African CKD patients. 31426909 2019
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate whether IL6 -174 G>C is associated with the risk factors and early markers of atherosclerosis. 19592000 2009
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of the IL-6 -174 G/C polymorphism on hemostatic or inflammatory markers in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD), a common manifestation of obliterative atherosclerosis. 18091699 2007
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To better clarify the role of CD14 in atherosclerosis, we typed CD14 C-260T polymorphism in old Italian (Central of Italy) atherosclerotic patients with carotid stenosis related to lipid assessment, inflammation (soluble CD14, IL-6 serum levels) and IL-6, TNF-alpha, IL-10, Metallothioneins (MT) gene expressions in carotid plaques. 17098305 2007
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The presence of IL-6 and IL-8 in the arterial wall where complement activation also occurred, clearly show the involvement of inflammatory events in initiation and progression of atherosclerosis. 9125317 1996
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We investigated the relationship of IL-6 and P4Hα1 in atherosclerosis-prone mice and human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMCs). 23022409 2012
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The anti-oxidant <i>N</i>-acetylcysteine (NAC) not only suppresses IL-6 production and VSMC pathological responses including migration and proliferation but also prevents atherosclerosis in <i>ApoE</i><sup>-/-</sup> mice. 31817202 2019
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Chronic inflammation due to high IL-6 production occurs in type 2 diabetes (NIDDM) and atherosclerosis. 16518702 2005
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human Our results suggested that pravastatin's aortic atherosclerosis preventing action via attenuation of IL-6 action may partially depend on modulation of STAT3 activity. 19330073 2008
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE IL-6 may have a role in aberrant differentiation of VSCs contributing to vascular calcification in atherosclerosis. 26840742 2016
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The purpose of our study was to investigate the effects of endothelial lipase gene polymorphism and inflammation markers (CRP, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8 and TNF-α) in the atherosclerosis. 23673478 2013
CUI: C0004153
Disease: Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE As IL-6 increases in atherosclerosis, the study of the polymorphism of IL-6 may be a useful tool in identifying old subjects at risk for atherosclerosis. 15050298 2004