Table 3.

Summary ORs and 95% CIs of IL-6-572C/G polymorphism and sepsis risk.

		G vs. C	GG vs. CC	GC vs. CC	Dominant model	Recessive model
	n	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Total	4	0.98 (0.79–1.22)	1.46 (0.53–4.03)	0.82 (0.54–1.27)	0.88 (0.55–1.41)	1.55 (0.82–2.92)
Ethnicity
Asian	2	1.06 (0.76–1.47)	1.61 (0.63–4.08)	0.93 (0.62–1.41)	0.99 (0.67–1.47)	1.71 (0.68–4.32)
Caucasian	2	0.88 (0.32–2.40)	1.53 (0.13–17.95)	0.74 (0.31–1.79)	0.79 (0.29–2.18)	1.67 (0.18–15.81)
Age
Adult	3	0.83 (0.52–1.34)	0.98 (0.47–2.06)	0.72 (0.43–1.22)	0.76 (0.44–1.29)	1.10 (0.53–2.28)
Paediatric	1	/	/	/	/	/