“…Interestingly, serum SA was no higher in Type 1 patients without microvascular diabetic complications than age‐ and sex‐matched normal subjects; this was in contrast to the situation found in Type 2 diabetes where SA was raised [46]. Another important observation was that acute phase reactants, such as SA and CRP, are increased in Type 2 diabetic patients with microalbuminuria and proteinuria [47–51]. Intriguingly, the increases in plasma acute phase reactants, such as SA, appear to precede the development of microalbuminuria [52], thus, suggesting that the measurement of serum acute reactants may be more useful markers of microvascular complications than microalbuminuria.…”