TNF and type 2 diabetes mellitus: We observed a statistically significant but weak correlation between serum hs‐CRP and TNF‐α in patients with T2D without albuminuria (r = 0.34, r2 = 0.1156; p = 0.023); while no association was observed between hs‐CRP and TNF‐α in patients with T2D with albuminuria.