FABP1 and type 1 diabetes mellitus: Recently, Panduru et al. showed that in a large cohort of patients with T1DM with a median follow up of 5.8 years, Liver-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (L-FABP) was an independent predictor of DKD evolution as assessed by progression from normo- to microalbuminuria, from microalbuminuria to macroalbuminuria, and from macroalbuminuria to ESRD [77].