Although the two groups did not differ significantly in gender, age, smoking habit, history of CV disease, duration of T2DM, BMI, SBP, hemoglobin, serum albumin, HBA1c, c-reactive protein (CRP), HDL cholesterol, and UPCR, patients in the high ox-LDL group presented higher DBP and lower eGFR values, at baseline. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.