IL6 and congestive heart failure: The finding of a positive association between SUA and IL-6 is alsoconsistent with the finding from patients with chronic heart failure [13] and from theInCHIANTI study [17], but contrasts with a study on institutionalized elderlymen in Taiwan [19].The positive findings are in agreement with the finding that uric acid stimulateshuman mononuclear cells to produce IL-6 [2].