AHSG and diabetes mellitus: During partial correlation analysis, however, the correlation between fetuin-A concentrations and PPARα intron 7 GG/GC/CC genotype lost significance when corrected for BMI (r = 0.100, p = 0.125), diabetes status (r = 0.108, p = 0.092), HOMA-IR (r = 0.116, p = 0.072), and postinfarction status (r = 0.122, p = 0.058).