CRP and diabetes mellitus: At hospital admission patients with diabetes, compared with those without diabetes, presented with higher values of plasma glucose (151 [117–215] vs. 102 [93–118] mg/dL, < 0.001), serum creatinine (1.03 [0.82–1.50] vs. 0.81 [0.70–1.04] mg/dL, p < 0.001), CRP (5.06 [1.70-–10.58] vs. 2.71 [0.82–7.52] mg/L, p = 0.014), fibrinogen (556 [467–752] vs. 471 [384–800] mg/dL, p = 0.028), white blood cell count (6.79 [5.46–8.80] vs. 5.90 [4.38–8.48] × 109/L, p = 0.045) and neutrophil count (4.84 [0.75–1.48] vs. 3.97 [2.67–6.0] × 109/L, p = 0.017).