MBL2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: MBL levels in paired samples, for T2D patients with high MBL expression genotype, was 1949 μg/L (IQR 1200;2231) at study entry and 1548 μg/L (1051;2063) at the 5-year follow-up visit (p= 0.143) (Figure 2A).