There was a gradual increase of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, HbA1c, glucose, triglyceride, urinary L-FABP, and ACR in parallel with a gradual decrease of eGFR among the study groups from the nondiabetic subjects to the type 2 diabetic patients of various stages of albuminuria (p<0.001). The gene discussed is FABP1; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.