TNF and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Moreover, Brazilian men aged 60–80 with systemic arterial hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus, both eutrophic and overweight, had serum IL-10 concentrations (pg/mL) with mean values of 90.13 ± 24.37 and 64.34 ± 23.81, TNF-α concentrations of 1.49 ± 0.378 and 3.01 ± 0.448, and IL-10/TNF-α ratios of 8.38 ± 3.06 and 32.49 ± 18.81, respectively (29).