Evidence of Increased Inflammation and Monocytic Activity in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: plausible role in Microvascular Complications 1 Sridevi Devaraj, PhD, 1 Anthony T. Cheung,PhD, 1,2 Ishwarlal Jialal, MD, PhD, 2 Steven C. Griffen, MD, 3 Danh Nguyen, PhD, 2 Nicole Glaser, MD, and 2 Thomas Aoki, MD Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research, Departments of Pathology 1 and Internal Medicine 2 and Biostatistics 3 , UCDavis Medical Center, Sacramento CA Running Title: Inflammation, Complications and Type 1 diabetes Address for Correspondence: S.Devaraj, PhD Associate Professor of Pathology UCDavis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 95817 Email:sdevaraj@ucdavis.edu Received for publication 7 June 2007 and accepted in revised form 4 August 2007. Diabetes Publish Ahead of Print, published online August 8, 2007 Copyright American Diabetes Association, Inc., 2007