INS and type 2 diabetes mellitus: In the newly diagnosed T2DM patients who have not yet received treatment, the expression level of miR-146a correlated with the triglyceride levels (r = 0.49; P < 0.001) and correlated with microalbuminuria (r = -0.28; P = 0.045); miR-147b expression (r = -0.29; P = 0.04) and but was not uncorrelated with insulin, C-peptide, blood lipids, HOMA-IR, HOMA-S, HOMA- β (P > 0.05) (Table 5).