IL6 and Sepsis: The proportions of variability (effect size) in the ranked dependent variables accounted for by grouping variables were >0.20 (medium per Cohen), indicating a fairly strong relationship between sepsis and the expression levels of hGR protein, cortisol, extracellular HSP72 and 90α, SAPS-III, IL-6, procalcitonin (PCT), age, sex, and mortality (Table 1).