CRP and diabetes mellitus: Analysis of the clinical parameters of the patients in these different subgroups showed no inter-group differences in terms of age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, alcohol consumption, LDL-C, FFA, LPa, HCY, HDL-C, and ApoA1 while significant differences were observed for TG, LDL-C, CRP, and SAA (Table 2).