ANGPT2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Our analysis also showed that increased Ang2 levels in people with T2D was positively correlated with the levels of serum creatinine (r = 0.3, p = 0.036), BUN (r = 0.32, p = 0.025), and ANGPTL4 (r = 0.55, p ≤ 0.001) (Table 3).