In type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity, regional hypoxia in expanding white adipose tissue (WAT) reconfigures macrophage immunometabolism and chemokine signaling, recruits C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2<sup>+</sup>) monocytes, and skews adipose-tissue macrophages toward M1-like programs that sustain low-grade inflammation and blunt the physiological M1-to-M2 transition during wound repair. The gene discussed is CCR2; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.