While our study did not show a direct association between CD4 count, either as a percent or as total numbers, and insulin resistance or diabetes as shown in larger epidemiologic studies [2], [33], [34], [35], it is consistent with a study that demonstrated a higher prevalence of elevated sCD14, a marker of MO activation, among HIV-infected veterans with a CD4 cell count <200 cells/μL [33]. This evidence concerns the gene CD4 and diabetes mellitus.