ALB and diabetes mellitus: Multivariate forward stepwise linear regression analysis of the variables significantly associated with fasting serum A-FABP levels revealed that body fat mass (adjusted R2 change = 0.150; P < 0.001), log-creatinine (adjusted R2 change = 0.140; P < 0.001), female DM patients (adjusted R2 change = 0.051; P < 0.001), serum albumin level (adjusted R2 change = 0.029; P = 0.004), log-hs-CRP (adjusted R2 change = 0.020; P = 0.013), and GFR (adjusted R2 change = 0.012; P = 0.043) were independent predictors of these values for type 2 DM patients (Table 4).