“…Apoptosis during DM can lead to atherosclerotic plaque generation [296,301,302], foster processes associated with infection, such as COVID-19 [59,71,303,304], promote joint degenerative diseases [152,293,[305][306][307], and enhance stem cell demise and inflammatory pathway activation [26,103,129,132,291,[308][309][310][311][312][313][314]. Apoptosis during metabolic disorders also can be involved in adipose tissue inflammation during loss of metabolic homeostasis [315], may lead to cognitive loss in combination with autophagic pathways [77], promote microglial activation to the detriment of cells [26], impair pancreatic β-cell function [61,316], promote demyelination of nerve fibers [317], lead to ischemic cell injury [63], result in retinal cell loss [75,76,292,[318][319][320][321], foster renal cell injury [43,220,322], and lead to vascular cell degeneration [53, 101,215,…”