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Inflammatory cytokines and ischemic stroke risk: The REGARDS cohort
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Inflammatory cytokines and ischemic stroke risk: The REGARDS cohort

Nancy Swords Jenny, Peter W Callas, Suzanne E Judd, Leslie A McClure, Brett Kissela, Neil A Zakai and Mary Cushman
Neurology, v 92(20), pp e2375-e2384
14 May 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000007416
PMID: 31004072
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Abstract

African Americans - statistics & numerical data Aged Brain Ischemia - ethnology Brain Ischemia - immunology Case-Control Studies Cytokines - immunology Female Humans Incidence Interleukin-10 - immunology Interleukin-6 - immunology Interleukin-8 - immunology Male Middle Aged Proportional Hazards Models Stroke - ethnology Stroke - immunology Whites - statistics & numerical data
We studied circulating interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, and IL-10 concentrations and incident ischemic stroke risk in a biracial cohort, and determined if these cytokines mediated the racial disparity in stroke incidence affecting the black population. The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study enrolled 30,237 black and white men and women age ≥45 in 2003-2007. We measured baseline IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10 in a case-cohort study of 557 participants with incident stroke over 5.4 years and 951 participants in a cohort sample. IL-6, but not IL-8 or IL-10, was higher in cases compared to the cohort sample (mean 4.5 vs 3.7 ng/mL; < 0.001). Only IL-6 was associated with stroke risk factors. Adjusting for age, sex, and race, the hazard ratio (HR; 95% confidence interval) for incident stroke for the highest vs lowest quartile of IL-6 was 2.4 (1.6-3.4). HRs for the highest vs lowest quartiles of IL-8 and IL-10 were 1.5 (1.0-2.1) and 1.4 (1.0-1.9), respectively. After additional adjustment for stroke risk factors, only higher IL-6 remained associated with stroke risk (HR 2.0; 1.2-3.1). Associations did not differ by race. Mediation analyses showed that IL-6 mediated the black-white disparity in stroke risk, but mediation was via IL-6 associations with stroke risk factors. In this biracial population-based sample, IL-6 was strongly associated with risk of incident stroke and mediated the racial disparity in stroke via inflammatory effects of risk factors. Further study on the clinical utility of IL-6 measurement in stroke risk assessment would be helpful.

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