CRP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Based on the results of the Cox regression models, an adaptive LASSO regression model and multivariate Cox regression analysis were computed to predict survival at 5, 10, and 15 years in type 2 diabetes based on the following variables: age, sex, HbA1c, eGFR, blood lipids, hs-CRP, and the cardiac biomarkers sST2, Dimension Vista hs-cTnI, and NT-proBNP as categorical variables.