ANGPTL3 and liver dysplastic nodule: When performing the correlation analysis, we found a significant negative correlation between the elevation of Ang1 in the plasma and albumin (r = −0.24, p = 0.045) and a positive correlation with both microalbumin (r = 0.35, p = 0.003) and ANGPTL3 (r = 0.25, p = 0.03) in people with DN (Table 2).