highly significantp < 0.01
In the larger group of diabetic patients, highly significant correlations prevailed between glycemia and BMI, insulinemia, HOMA-IR index, C-peptide, HbA1C, HDL-C, TGs/HDL-C ratio, adiponectin, IL-6 and TNF-α ( p < 0.01 in all cases), whilst significant correlations with a higher p-value ( p < 0.05) were observed between glycemia and either total cholesterol or GLP-1.