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Amniotic fluid interleukin-6 increase is an indicator of spontaneous preterm birth in white but not black Americans.
Am J Obstet Gynecol
January 2008
Perinatal Research Center of the Women's Health Research and Education Foundation, Women's Hospital at the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
Objective: This study examined the differences in the inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 and the immunoinhibitory cytokine IL-10 in the amniotic fluid of black and white women in spontaneous preterm birth.
Methods: In this study, 321 amniotic fluids from cases (preterm birth 36 or fewer weeks' gestation) and controls (normal term delivery longer than 37 weeks' gestation) were collected (147 cases [49 blacks and 98 whites] and 174 controls [85 blacks and 89 whites]) at the time of active labor. IL-6 and IL-10 concentrations were measured by immunoassays.