CRP and diabetes mellitus: Traditional statistical methods used for the assessment of etiological associations might not be adequate to determine the capacity of the marker of interest for classifying or predicting risk for the individual.25 In this setting, Salomaa et al17 identified in the FINRISK97 Cohort the biomarkers apolipoprotein B100, CRP, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, and ferritin as the strongest predictors of incident diabetes.