FABP3 and diabetes mellitus: As the main novel findings of our study, when status of glucose metabolism was incorporated in H-FABP stratification, patients in the highest level of H-FABP group were associated with higher risk of CVEs in both pre-DM group (adjusted hazard ratio [HR]: 1.855, 95% confidential intervals [CIs] 1.076–3.214; p = 0.033) and DM (adjusted HR: 2.560, 95% CIs 1.409–4.650; p = 0.002).