CD8A and diabetes mellitus: Since several studies,11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 including our prior work,14, 18 have reported higher circulating memory, senescent and TEMRA T cells in the blood of those with type 2 diabetes compared with without, we evaluated the cross‐sectional associations of naive, memory, senescent and TEMRA CD4+ and CD8+ cells with prevalent DM (n = 374) at the 1998–1999 CHS examination as a secondary analysis.