IL6 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Similarly the differences observed in IL-6 levels with increasing light activity and MVPA (14 and 31% respectively) and decreasing sedentary time (31%) were greater than those reported between non-cases and cases of CVD and T2DM in the Caerphilly study [42], and between survivors of a first myocardial infarction and age and gender matched controls [43] for MVPA alone.