CRP and diabetes mellitus: Among all patients, compared to the lowest hs-CRP group, the highest hs-CRP group was independently associated with poor outcome at 3 months in the multivariate analysis, after adjusting for age, sex, diabetes mellitus, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and NIHSS score (adjusted odds ratio, 1.917; 95% CI, 1.050–3.500; P = 0.034; Table 3).