HIF1A and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Li et al. [90] also observed elevated serum levels of HIF-1α in patients with T2D compared to healthy individuals; however, the mean HIF-1α concentration was substantially lower than that observed in our study (0.2 ± 0.1 ng/mL vs. 657.0 ± 210.4 ng/mL, respectively).