Elevated levels of IL‐6 are associated with early (Klein et al, 2014) and late AMD (Klein et al, 2008) and are significantly related to smoking, higher body mass index, and “inflammaging”, the low‐grade, chronic, systemic sterile inflammation in aging, in the absence of infection (Franceschi & Campisi, 2014). This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and age-related macular degeneration.