IL6 and Stroke: Stroke patients were found to have significantly higher levels of serum IL-6 (stroke: 6.26 ± 9.23 pg/ml, control: 1.96 ± 3.77 pg/ml, p=0.0014, Figure 5C) and IL-8 (stroke: 7.27 ± 36.53 pg/ml, control: 3.15 ± 2.47 pg/ml, p=0.0017, Figure 5D) compared to controls (Figure 5C).