SERPINA12 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: In T2DM group, significantly higher HDL-C (1.2±0.4 vs. 1.1±0.3, P = 0.043) and HOMA-IR (2.49±1.76 vs. 1.86±0.90, P = 0.004) were found in sub-group with higher vaspin levels (Table 1).