In our study, IL-6 showed a trend of gradual upregulation with pneumonia severity, it was a selected feature for discrimination between uCAP and sCAP and correlated with the plasma levels of IL-8, which has been described to be significantly higher in sCAP patients compared to milder CAP ( 30 ).
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Novel protein biomarkers for pneumonia and acute exacerbations in COPD: a pilot study.
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