Additionally, patients of Croatian origin with myocardial infarction were more susceptible to hypertension, type 2 diabetes and disrupted systolic blood pressure, depending on the variant in rs13124436 and rs6811520 SNPs in CLOCK and to type 2 diabetes depending on the variant in rs3789327 SNP in BMAL1 [75]. This evidence concerns the gene BMAL1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.