CRP and diabetes mellitus: In Western and Eastern countries, hemodialysis patients with high hs-CRP, and diabetes had 1.25 to 1.68 times, and 2.00 to 2.08 times risk of death, respectively.[2] The effect of elevated CRP on mortality was also found in the international Monitoring Dialysis Outcome Initiative cohort in 16 European countries,[36] in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study in Japan,[15] and in South Korea.[37]