B Vozarova, C Weyer, RS Lindsay, RE Pratley, C … - Diabetes, 2002 - Am Diabetes Assoc Chronic low-grade inflammation may be involved in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and
type 2 diabetes. We examined whether a high white blood cell count (WBC), a marker of
inflammation, predicts a worsening of insulin action, insulin secretory function, and the ... Cited by 159 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org ES Ford - American journal of epidemiology, 2002 - Oxford Univ Press Emerging data suggest that inflammation may play a role in the etiology of diabetes mellitus.
Because few prospective studies have addressed this issue, the author examined the relation
between leukocyte count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate and diabetes incidence ... Cited by 58 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
RS Lindsay, J Krakoff, RL Hanson, PH Bennett, WC … - Diabetes, 2001 - Am Diabetes Assoc It has been proposed that inflammation or infection may contribute to the development of type
2 diabetes. We examined whether serum gamma globulin, a nonspecific measure of the humoral
immune system, predicted changes in glucose tolerance in 2,530 members of the Pima ... Cited by 60 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
N Nakanishi, H Yoshida, Y Matsuo, K Suzuki, K Tatara - Diabetologia, 2002 - Springer Considerable research has been done on factors that influence the development of Type II
(non-insulin- dependent) diabetes mellitus. Age, family history of ... White blood-cell count and
the risk of impaired fasting glucose ... N.Nakanishi 1 , H.Yoshida 1 , Y.Matsuo 1 , ... Cited by 46 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
MI Schmidt, BB Duncan, AR Sharrett, G Lindberg, PJ … - Lancet(British edition), 1999 - cat.inist.fr Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease have common
antecedents. Since markers of inflammation predict coronary heart disease and are raised in
patients with type 2 diabetes, we investigated whether they predict whether people will ... Cited by 479 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org DJ Freeman, J Norrie, MJ Caslake, A Gaw, I Ford, G … - Diabetes, 2002 - Am Diabetes Assoc Accumulating evidence implicates inflammation as a potential pathway in the pathogenesis of
type 2 diabetes. The objective of the present study was to assess the ability of C-reactive protein
(CRP) to predict the development of diabetes in middle-aged men in the West of Scotland ... Cited by 470 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
JI Barzilay, L Abraham, SR Heckbert, M Cushman, LH … - Diabetes, 2001 - Am Diabetes Assoc Several studies suggest that inflammation plays a role in the pathogenesis of some glucose disorders
in adults. We tested this hypothesis in a longitudinal cohort study of older individuals who had
normal fasting glucose (FG) values at baseline. We compared the baseline levels of six ... Cited by 494 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
B Vozarova, JM Fernández-Real, WC Knowler, L … - Human genetics, 2003 - Springer Abstract Chronic low-grade activation of the immune system may play a role in the pathogenesis
of type-2 dia- betes mellitus (T2DM). Interleukin-6 (IL6), a powerful inducer of hepatic acute phase
response, has been impli- cated in the etiology of insulin resistance and T2DM. Re- ... Cited by 105 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
RE Pratley, C Wilson, C Bogardus - Obesity research, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Recent reports suggest that the white blood cell (WBC) count is related to plasma insulin concentrations
and insulin resistance in healthy individuals. The present study examines whether these relations
are independent of obesity and the pattern of body fat distribution and tests whether race ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct
B Vozarova, C Weyer, K Hanson, PA Tataranni, C … - Obesity, 2001 - nature.com Objective: Plasma concentrations of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a proinflammatory cytokine produced
and released in part by adipose tissue, are elevated in people with obesity and type 2
diabetes. Because recent studies suggest that markers of inflammation predict the ... Cited by 277 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
