{"id":4143,"date":"2021-04-15T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:55:41","slug":"interlekin-6-pry-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/interlekin-6-pry-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Interleukin-6 in COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udca1Scientists have studied that in severe cases of SARS-CoV-2, the disease progresses in the second stage:<br \/>\nStage I \u2013 the immune system responds to the virus quickly and effectively;<br \/>\nStage II \u2013 its reaction becomes aggressive, which, in turn, leads to the production of excessive amounts of cytokines.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccdAs a result, respiratory system complications arise: pneumonia, distress syndrome, respiratory failure.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34\u201cCytokine storm\u201d is a phenomenon in which the immune system produces an excessive number of immune cells that secrete messenger proteins known as cytokines. It is this excess of cytokines that can lead to lung inflammation.<br \/>\nAnalysis for interleukin-6 makes it possible to assess the patient&#039;s condition in severe cases of the disease, as the anti-inflammatory cytokine has an effect on the organs and systems of the body.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34\u201cCytokine storms\u201d are observed in various viral and bacterial infections (hepatitis, HIV, COVID-19), as well as in patients receiving certain treatments \u2013 CAR-T (for example), used to attack cancer cells.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udca1Scientists have studied that in severe cases of SARS-CoV-2, the disease progresses in two stages: Stage I \u2013 the immune system responds to the virus<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medilab.km.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}