In other studies, associations between IFABP and inflammatory biomarkers have been found in malaria, but not in sepsis and cardiac surgery.15, 17, 18, 19, 38 Further, IFABP has been convincingly associated with mortality after cardiac arrest, while IL-6 are among the few inflammatory biomarkers which are associated with poor outcome after adjustment for confounding factors.9, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 Importantly, IFABP and inflammatory biomarkers could merely increase in parallel with the degree of whole-body ischaemia.20, 21. This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and cardiac arrest.