Objectives: The goals of this study were to investigate the differences in circulating IL-22 levels between patients with STEMI undergoing PPCI and healthy controls and to determine whether these differences were associated with the culprit coronary artery, door-to-balloon time (DBT), final angiographic result, CAD classification, and presence of diabetes mellitus (DM). The gene discussed is IL22; the disease is coronary artery disorder.