CRP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: However, the levels of CRP (72.7 mg/L vs. 57.9 mg/L), D-dimer (1540 ng/mL vs. 1139 ng/mL), AST/ALT ratio (1.5 vs. 1.2), and the proportion of patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (30.8% vs. 23.3%) on admission were higher in the new-onset than in the T2DM hyperglycemia group.