Recently s-CD-163 is associated with various inflammatory conditions (Moestrup, Moller 2004), and very recently to be a rather strong predictor of the development of type 2 diabetes in a large Danish cohort (Moller et al. 2011). Thus, s-CD-163 may be a marker both related to inflammation as well as to metabolic conditions maybe linking low grade inflammation and metabolic abnormalities, and furthermore, may be a marker of the obese state with complications.