These associations remained significant after adjustment for possible confounding risk factors including age, sex, systolic blood pressures, hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) levels, durations of diabetes, BMI, current smoking status, serum triglyceride, and total cholesterol levels (Table 4), indicating that the SLC2A10 genetic polymorphism is an independent risk factor of PAD in type 2 diabetes. The gene discussed is SLC2A10; the disease is diabetes mellitus.