Serum interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels are a useful marker of disease activity and risk of relapse in large vessel vasculitis.
Serum IL-1Ra levels correlate with CRP levels in GCA and ITAS-A scores in TAK and serve as a predictive biomarker for relapse.
Authors
- Kenji Chiba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1687-1746)
- Hiroshi Takei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5167-0715)
- Yuko Kaneko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2646-5765)
- Keiko Yoshimoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-267X)
- Kanako Shimanuki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0001-1078)
- Koji Suzuki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1358-7069)
- Sho Ishigaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3100-9011)
- Mitsuhiro Akiyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5075-8977)
- Noriyasu Seki
- Waleed Alshehri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2925-0279)
- Koichi Saito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-0032)
- Hideto Tsujimoto
Institutions
- Keio University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cytokine
- Published
- 2025-10-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cyto.2025.157059
- Primary Topic
- Vasculitis and related conditions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00