Interleukin-1 and Interleukin-6 Polymorphisms Might Influence Predisposition to Hemorrhagic Cerebral Vascular...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and IL-6 polymorphisms might influence predisposition to hemorrhagic cerebral vascular diseases, but the results of already published studies regarding relationship between IL-1/IL-6 polymorphisms and hemorrhagic cerebral vascular diseases were still controversial and ambiguous.

The authors designed this meta-analysis to more precisely estimate the relationship between IL-1/IL-6 polymorphisms and hemorrhagic cerebral vascular diseases by pooling the results of already published related studies.

The authors searched PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and CNKI for already published studies. Eighteen already published studies were pooled analyzed in this meta-analysis.

The pooled meta-analyses' results showed that distributions of IL-1A rs1800587, IL-1B rs16944, and IL-6 rs1800796 polymorphisms among patients and controls differed significantly. Moreover, distribution of the IL-6 rs1800795 polymorphism among patients and controls from Asians also differed significantly. Further analyses showed similar findings for IL-1A rs1800587, IL-1B rs16944, and IL-6 rs1800796 polymorphisms in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) subgroup.

This meta-analysis suggested that IL-1A rs1800587, IL-1B rs16944, and IL-6 rs1800796 polymorphisms might influence susceptibility to hemorrhagic cerebral vascular diseases, especially for aSAH. Moreover, IL-6 rs1800795 might influence susceptibility to hemorrhagic cerebral vascular diseases in Asians.