IL6 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The exploration of innate immunity (inflammation) revealed an extremely high IL-6 serum level (4966.83 pg/mL), 6.5 times higher than the average of the test group (T2DM and ESRD) (764.15 pg/mL) and 15.2 times higher than the average of the control group, consisting of ESRD patients (328.38 pg/mL) (Figure 4, left).