On the other hand no association was observed between ANGPTL8 and ANGPTL3 in the T2D subjects for both obese (r = −0.1431, p-Value = 0.3733) and non-obese groups (r = −0.200, p-Value = 0.3488) as shown in Fig. 5. Here, ANGPTL8 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.