The diabetes white blood cell count is an elevated one, studies have shown. The findings are that a high white blood cell count is a marker of inflammation and may be a predictor of worsening insulin action, insulin secretory function, and the development of type-2 diabetes. On study was recently conducted on Pima Indians, who by the way have one of the highest incident rates of diabetes in the world, showed that a chronic activation of the immune system may play a role in the development of type-2 diabetes.

Another study on a diabetes white blood cell count, which can be found on DiabetesJournals.org, studied the connection between the diabetes white blood cell count of patients and their glucose tolerance. The patients either had an impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), an impaired fasting glucose (IFG), a normal glucose tolerance and fasting glucose, or both IGT and IFG. The results found that …