While IL-6 was hardly detectable in healthy controls (0.06 ± 0.04 ng/ml), sepsis patients within the first 24 h of diagnosis (referred to as day 0 here) had significantly increased IL-6 levels (0.84 ± 0.2 ng/ml, Fig. 1C), which declined slightly five days after diagnosis (0.61 ± 0.2 ng/ml). This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and Sepsis.