MEG3 and diabetic kidney disease: Kruskal Wallis test, post hoc Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman's correlation were used for data analysis.<h4>Results</h4>The relative expression of MEG3 lnc-RNA was significantly higher in the DKD group (median=3.83, IQR=1.22-3.83) as compared to the DM (median= 2.22, IQR= 0.49-3.12) and healthy groups (median= 1.97, IQR= 1.17-1.97) with a <i>p-</i>value of 0.002.