Lower FPG-CV was associated with higher mean age, lower mean duration of diabetes, triglycerides, fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c, along with lower prevalence of female gender, tobacco, alcohol, three oral hypoglycemic drugs, insulin injections, insulin injections plus oral hypoglycemic drugs, congestive heart failure, cancer, hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and more frequent use of one or two oral hypoglycemic drugs, hypertension drug treatment, obesity and hyperlipidemia. This evidence concerns the gene INS and Obesity.