IL6 and Insulin resistance: Immunoinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF-α are excessively secreted in the presence of adipocyte hyperplasia, and macrophage and lymphocyte infiltration into the adipose tissue - by association of the immune system, which slows down the insulin signaling chain and the resulting glucose translocation, and affects energy homeostasis and body mass, contributing to the onset of DM due to insulin-resistance.(13)