CCN2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The ridge trace shown in Figure 5 (x1–x7 = OC, ADPN, P1NP, β-CTx, Ln HbA1c, Ln miR-154-5p, and CTGF, respectively) with Ln UACR as the dependent variable in all, men and post-menopausal women T2DM patients indicated that when the ridge parameter was set at k = 0.4, standardized regression coefficients of each independent variable tended to be stable.