APOB and diabetes mellitus: Moreover, at baseline, LDL/ATP-induced WAT IL-1β-secretion was associated in the direction of higher diabetes risk in subjects with high-apoB, associating negatively with 1st phase and total DI (Fig. 6A and B), IS (Fig. 6C), and WAT PPARG mRNA (Fig. 6F) and positively with SREBP2 mRNA (Fig. 6G) and android fat (Fig. 6I).