CRP and diabetes mellitus: The association with serum triglycerides may be indirect and related to insulin resistance and adiposity.13 However Nabipour et al. (2008) have reported that elevated CRP is significantly correlated with diabetes in general population of the northern Persian Gulf.80 Ghayour-Mobarhan et al. (2007) confirmed that serum CRP concentrations increased in patients with classical coronary risk factors in Iranian population, and that they might be modulated by dietary cholesterol.81