LBP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Within insulin resistant (obese and T2DM) subjects only, LPS (r = −0.29, P = 0.11) and LBP (r = −0.41, P = 0.03) also negatively correlated with M. There was a tendency for a small increase in sCD14 in insulin resistant subjects (Figure 1C; P = 0.11 and P = 0.10 in obese and T2DM subjects, respectively).