NKILA and familial dilated cardiomyopathy: Recently, Li et al. (68) performed A 8-year-follow-up study on 312 diabetic patients without complications and found that nuclear factor-κ B interacting long non-coding RNA (lncRNA NKILA) is specifically upregulated in DCM patients, and its knockdown reduces apoptotic cell death in cardiomyocytes under high-glucose treatment (19).