SCARB1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: As shown in Table 3, the results of logistic regression analysis found that major allele homozygotes (GG) of SCARB1 rs5888 negatively correlated with the risk of T2DM in aging subjects with the OR value of 0.636 (95% CI: 0.421–0.962, P = 0.032) in dominant model.