SFTPB and diabetes mellitus: A less prominent example is pulmonary surfactant protein B (gene name: SFTPB; protein name: PSPB; short name: SP-B), which was previously found enriched in HDL from patients with ASCVD or diabetes mellitus type 2 (4, 8) and to predict mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes on hemodialysis (9) or heart failure (10).