Although this study is not powered to look at the incidence of cardiomyopathy and coronary atherosclerosis in the group of patients with elevated level of h-TnT and IL-6, particularly that those variables were found to elevated in diabetics and hypertensives who are at higher risk of having cardiomyopathy and coronary atherosclerosis [27,28]. Here, IL6 is linked to coronary atherosclerosis.