Poorly controlled type 2 diabetes is accompanied by significant morphological and ultrastructural changes in both erythrocytes and in thrombin-generated fibrin: implications for diagnostics

Table 1 Selected references showing a changed inflammatory marker profile in diabetes type II individuals

Inflammatory marker	Selected references
Low Protein C	[36,42]
High levels of coagulation factors (II, V, VIII, X and von Willebrandt factor)	[36,37,43-45]
Increased NOS	[46-50]
Increased TNFα	[25,51-53]
Increased NFκB	[28,54-57]
Increased COX-2	[57-61]
Increased PGE2	[62,63]
Iron (increased serum ferritin levels)	[64-89].
Increased interleukin-6	[44,45,53,62,90]
Increased thromboxane A2	[91,92]