ALB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: For the South Asian as compared with the European T2D patients, diabetes duration was longer (P = 0.012), the daily insulin dose tended to be higher (P = 0.056), the urinary albumin/creatinine ratio was higher (P = 0.045) and total cholesterol was lower (P = 0.046), whereas HbA1c was similar (P = 0.801).