IL6 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The authors found an increased risk of T2DM (HR = 2.12 (95% CI 1.43–3.14), p value> 0.001), and CHD (HR = 1.50 (95% CI 1.07–2.10), p value 0.02) in asthma and argue that the association with asthma-T2DM and asthma-CHD probably involves the sharing of common immunogenic and environmental conditions, such as production of inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-17 already identified in all those clinical conditions and extrinsic mechanisms such as hypoxia and tachyarrhythmia present in exacerbations of asthma and capable of triggering symptoms of CHD.