NPPB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: However, after adjusting for baseline ApoM levels, age, race/ethnicity, sex, eGFR, and T2DM, each 0.1 uM increase in ApoM level at 12 weeks was associated with a significant decrease in log-transformed NT-proBNP in the overall cohort (β = −0.11; 95% CI: −0.18 to −0.03; P = 0.006) (Table 2).