CRP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The AUC associated with the ROC analysis of model 1 (including age, sex, the BMI, smoking habit, the UACR, hypertension, dyslipidemia, duration of T2DM,as well as levels of CRP, uric acid, and HbA1c) was 0.81 (95% CI, 0.74–0.87).