CCL2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Aside from the above, miRNAs such as miR-18a, miR-34c, miR-21-5p, miR-103b, miR-122, miR-155, miR-181b, miR-574-3p, and miR-576-3p may act as mediators of inflammatory response in patients with T2DM, although some authors have suggested that miR-34c-5p, miR-146a, miR-155, miR-574-3p, and miR-576-3p did not correlate with the level of proinflammatory cytokines, except for the poor association of miR-574-3p with MCP-1 [181,194,203,206,207,209,210,211,212,213].