The two groups were well matched at baseline in terms of demographic data such as age (intensive exercise group: 72.6 ± 6.8 vs. non-intensive exercise group: 74.5 ± 8.5 p = 0.471), diabetes mellitus (56.3% vs. 52.4% p = 0.890), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (66.26 [48.1, 81.8] vs. 68.6 [53.2, 72.7] p = 0.859), C-reactive protein level (0.06 [0.04, 0.20] vs. 0.11 [0.06, 0.21] p = 0.44), 6-min walking distance results (367 [321, 416] vs. 360 [274, 405] p = 0.58) (Table 1), and lesion characteristics (Table 2). The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is diabetes mellitus.