Diabetes

Pro-inflammatory cytokines not risk factors in older Korean women

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 28th, 2004

Researchers explored the possibility that pro-inflammatory cytokine-induced systemic inflammation might be influential prior to the onset of type 2 diabetes, but they failed to make the connection.

"This study was performed to compare concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), as well as acute-phase proteins, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), between subjects with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)," reported K.M. Choi and colleagues at Korea University, Guro Hospital.

They wanted "to verify whether the pro-inflammatory cytokine-induced...

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