Cytokine gene polymorphisms and atopic disease in two European cohorts. (ECRHS-Basel and SAPALDIA)

Table 6 Mean adjusted¹⁾ total serum IgE levels in cases and non-atopic controls²⁾ in dependence of IL6(-174G>C) or IL18(-137G>C) genotype in the SAPALDIA Cohort Study.

1) Adjusted for age and gender. ²⁾ Non-atopic controls were free of self-reported hay fever, self-reported eczema and physician-diagnosed asthma. ³⁾ Self-reported hay fever cases answered yes to 'Have you ever had a problem with sneezing or a runny nose or a blocked nose when you did not have a cold?', irrespective of self-reported asthma or eczema. ⁴⁾ Measured total serum IgE levels were log-transformed and adjusted means are geometric means.

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