Inflammation and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Inflammation and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Running title: Inflammation and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Alain G. Bertoni MD MPH 1 , Gregory L. Burke MD MSc 1,2 , James A. Owusu MD 1 , Mercedes R Carnethon PhD 3 Dhananjay Vaidya PhD 4 , R. Graham Barr MD DrPH 5 , Nancy S. Jenny PhD 6 , Pamela Ouyang MBBS 4 , Jerome I. Rotter MD 7 (1) Division of Public Health Sciences, (2); Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC; (3) Northwestern University, Chicago I (4); Dept. of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD (5); Columbia University Medical Center, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, New York NY (6) Dept. of Pathology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT (7) Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles CA Corresponding Author: AG Bertoni Email: abertoni@wfubmc.edu               Submitted 8 September 2009 and accepted 16 January 2010.                                                    !                Diabetes Care Publish Ahead of Print, published online January 22, 2010 Copyright American Diabetes Association, Inc., 2010