INS and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Like in other studies, our findings showed that age, longer duration of diabetes, therapy with a combination of OHA and insulin, absence of regular exercise, being overweight, and increased levels of TC, TG, LDL-C, TC/HDL-C ratio, and LDL-C/HDL-C ratio were the major factors associated with the development of diabetes complications in T2DM [23,24].