SERPINA12 and diabetes mellitus: With vaspin as dependent variable and gender, age, duration of diabetes, BMI, WHR, SBP, hsCRP, TG, TC, LDL-C, HDL-C, FPG, FINS, HOMA-IR, HbA1C, C-peptide, and mass of visceral adipose as independent variables, the analysis revealed a significant positive association between the serum concentration of vaspin and BMI, WHR, mass of visceral adipose, and HOMA-IR (P = 0.043, 0.037, 0.029, and 0.014, resp.; Table 5).