PON1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: As it would be expected, the control group of healthy participants displayed significantly lower levels of oxidative stress and inflammation as reflected by the levels of AOPP, PAB, TOS (Table 2), ANTIOX score, PROOX score and OXY score (Figure 1), and the higher level of PON1 and TAS (Table 2) as compared with NT2D and T2D.