Background: Academic stress is an important research topic due to the effect it has on the 
 quality of life of students, future professionals and therefore, adult contributors in a society.
 It has been shown that students in the health field face additional stressors specific from
 their careers, and suffer greater stress than the general population of the same age.
 Methods: 52 students, 23 from Physiotherapy and 29 from Medicine programs were 
 surveyed with Academic Stressors Academic Scale (SAS) to know academic stress level
 and IL-6 was quantified in serum.
 Results: It was found that students who perceive the academic semester as stressful
 “fairly often” and “many times”, increases in 50%, 75% and 76.9% during the semester;
 while “anxiety/distress” feeling was predominant. The most frequent SAS scale factors
 were “methodological deficiencies”, “student overload”, “beliefs about performance”, “lack
 of content value”, “participation” and “exams”
 Conclusions: The study revealed an IL-6 increment, and their association with 
 “Methodological Deficiencies” at 1st moment. This study showed the importance of
 academic stressors identification at same time that it is a call to construct strategies to
 reduce stressors in University context