CRP and diabetes mellitus: After further subgroup analysis of all patients with PJI and AL, we found that among patients with diabetes, the PJI group had significantly higher levels of CRP (37.49 ± 46.47 vs.4.25 ± 9.42, p<0.001), ESR (64.98 ± 27.64 vs.24.72 ± 16.70, p<0.001), FIB (4.66 ± 1.55 vs.3.92 ± 3.44, p<0.001), CPR (0.54 ± 1.25 vs.0.02 ± 0.03, p<0.001), EPR (1.31 ± 6.00 vs.0.10 ± 0.74, p<0.001), FPR (0.04 ± 0.05 vs.0.02 ± 0.01, p<0.001), and CEF(1.89 ± 706 vs.0.13 ± 0.80, p<0.001) compared to the AL group (Table 5, Figure 4).