FGF23 and diabetes mellitus: Recent studies have associated elevated plasma levels of FGF-23 with a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus (Parker et al., 2010; Ix et al., 2012; Agarwal et al., 2014; Kestenbaum et al., 2014; Lutsey et al., 2014; Wright et al., 2014; Panwar et al., 2015; Speer et al., 2015; Wohlfahrt et al., 2015; Sharma et al., 2020; Song et al., 2021) and hypertension (Ix et al., 2012; Agarwal et al., 2014; Kestenbaum et al., 2014; Lutsey et al., 2014; Wright et al., 2014; Masson et al., 2015; Patel et al., 2020; Sharma et al., 2020).