Ultimately, sex and age; duration of diabetes; BMI; hypertension; previous use of antihypertensive drugs, RASIs, and lipid-lowering drugs; smoking; PP; duration of hypertension; and FPG, HbA1c, TG, TC, HDL-C, LDL-C, and ApoB/ApoAI levels were considered as independent variables. The gene discussed is APOB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.