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Here, two key inflammatory biomarkers\u2014Interleukin-8 and Interleukin-6\u2014have been explored as proof of concept, and a four-class stratification of inflammatory disease severity is discussed. Our method is superior to traditional lab techniques as it is faster (&lt;4 minutes turn-around time) and can work with any combination of disease biomarkers to categorize diseases by subtypes and severity. At its core, the biosensor relies on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to transduce subtle inflammatory stimuli at the input for IL-8 and IL-6 for a limit of detection (LOD) of 1 pg\/mL each. The biosensing scheme utilizes a two-stage random forest machine learning model for 4-state output disease classification with a 98.437% accuracy. 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