CRP and Abdominal obesity: Our study's main findings were as follows; (i) diabetes was poorly controlled, and accordingly, rates of diabetic dyslipidemia were extremely high, (ii) atherogenic dyslipidemia, which is important in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, was also prevalent (24.8%), (iii) The dominant component of the dyslipidemia patterns was high LDL-C, which has a proven atherogenic effect, (iv) various dyslipidemia patterns were found to be associated with age, gender, BMI, central obesity, spot urine proteinuria, FBG, poor glycemic control, creatinine, and Hs-CRP.