NPPB and diabetes mellitus: The relationship between VAP-1 levels and the composite of incident CV events was further investigated in subgroups stratified by the presence of diabetes mellitus and NT-proBNP levels, with cut-offs defined as median values in each parameter (>386.5 ng/mL for VAP-1 and >313.3 pg/mL for NT-proBNP, respectively; Table 4).