NEFL and diabetes mellitus: However, after adjusting for factors in Model B, i.e., age, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, SBP, HGB, RBC, lymphocyte count, albumin, urea, homocysteine (HCY), glucose (GLU), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), only the association between miR-18a-3p, miR-766-3p, miR-4446-3p levels and NfL remained statistically significant (β = 2.332, p = 0.00768, β = 2.133, p = 0.01688, and β = 1.989, p = 0.04456) (Table 7 and Supplementary Table S1).