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Diabetes Mellitus and Infection Susceptibility: An Immunometabolic Interface
2026-03-28
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a rapidly growing global health burden and a major driver of infection-related morbidity and mortality. Chronic hyperglycemia disrupts both innate and adaptive immunity through impaired complement activity, dysfunctional dendritic cells and natural killer cells, altered macrophage polarization and efferocytosis, and neutrophil defects including reduced chemotaxis, impaired phagocytosis, a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e39d0345-fa42-5212-83aa-f292917bb1ea
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202603.2266.v1
