APOE and diabetes mellitus: Indeed, using human fasting plasma samples, we found that concentrations of Aβ1-42 (P < 0.0001) and Aβ1-40 (P < 0.0001) increased with each quartile increase of amylin (Qiu et al., 2014) after adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, ApoE4, BMI, diabetes, stroke, kidney function and lipid profile.