Results reported in (Table 5) showed that significant higher NEAT1 was associated with the presence of diabetes mellitus and history of stroke (in both patient groups), but lower HOTAIR was significantly associated with patients with a history of stroke in the hypertensive group (P = 0.05) as well as lower GAS5 was significantly associated with diabetic patients in hypertensive group (P = 0.04). The gene discussed is NEAT1; the disease is diabetes mellitus.