CRP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Moreover, BMI (β=0.411, p<0.001), INR (β=−0.251, p=0.008), C-reactive protein (β=0.105, p=0.023), ferritin (β=0.157, p=0.012), fasting glucose (β=0.375, p=0.002), and T2DM (β=0.322, p<0.001) were associated independently with increased CAP score also in multivariate linear regression (Table 3).