IL6 and diabetes mellitus: In diabetic individuals, including newly-diagnosed DM, admittance glucose levels correlated to clinical markers, including respiratory (higher respiratory rate and lower SatO2 and PaO2/FIO2 ratio) and hemodynamic (higher levels of systolic blood pressure) parameters [19,33] and inflammatory (CRP, IL-6, and procalcitonin), hematologic (leucocytosis, lymphopenia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia), and tissue damage (D-dimer, ALT, troponin, and lactate) markers19.