CRP and diabetes mellitus: Furthermore, it has been found that diabetes risk was higher in men and women scoring in the highest quintile of an Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Pattern derived to best predict circulating concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers (C reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumour necrosis factor a receptor 2 (TNF-αR2)), relative to the lowest, least inflammatory quintile [13,14].