Although equation 1 was computed using lipid values from a small cohort (n = 45) of Caucasian T2DM patients, and equation 2 used fasting lipids from an extensive cohort (n = 73047) of healthy Koreans representative of a general Asian population, the two means of estimating apoB100 were perfectly correlated, and as effective and precise. Here, APOB is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.