IL6 and acute kidney injury: Regarding the outcome of AKI, the addition of IL-6 as a covariate to the subgroup adjusted model decreased the Day 1 total FGF23 OR from 1.42 (95% CI 0.95, 2.14; p = 0.09) to 1.26 (95% CI 0.81, 1.96; p = 0.31) (Table 4).