NPPB and diabetes mellitus: This applies to 5 of the 9 ASSIGN factors, specifically to age, socioeconomic status, smoking (but also all measures of smoking biochemistry), systolic blood pressure (but also pulse pressure and pulse rate), diabetes mellitus, and also nonfasting glucose, triglycerides, high‐sensitivity C‐reactive protein (hsCRP), fibrinogen, NT‐pro‐BNP, 25‐hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD), and γ‐glutamyl transferase.