Nevertheless, we recently showed that other inflammatory factors, including IL‐1ra and MCP‐1, do not increase in response to acute stress in people with T2D, in contrast to IL‐6 (Panagi, Poole, Hackett, & Steptoe, 2018), adding value to testing IL‐6 responsivity in people with T2D. Here, CCL2 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.