CRP and diabetes mellitus: The results indicated that: in contrasted to patients with increased HALP, patients with decrease HALP had older age, more diabetes and a higher proportion of previous history of CVD; lower lymphocyte count, monocyte count, hemoglobin, albumin, and calcium levels; higher neutrophil count, platelet count, blood phosphorus and CRP levels; and other demographic characteristics and clinic parameters of the participants were shown in Table 1.