FTO and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Indeed, the BMImax showed a stronger association with T2D than the current BMI in this study as previously reported [36–38], and, only in men, the association of the FTO variants with T2D was nominally significant when we used 'current BMI' and age as co-variables, whereas the association was no longer significant when we used BMImax and age as co-variables (Table 5).