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Inclusion Criteria: * Type 2 diabetic patients * willing and agreed to be included in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Type 1 DM patients * patients with active urinary sediment * patients with glomerulonephritis * patients with diagnosis or clinical features that are suspicious for another systemic disease that commonly causes kidney disease * patients with evidence of alternative kidney disease * patients with history of kidney transplantation * patients with end stage renal disease * patients with family history of non diabetic forms of kidney disease * patients with active malignancy * patients with established hemolytic disease * CKD patients requiring dialysis * patients taking drugs that interfere with serum uric acid level * patients taking drugs that alter serum lipids level * pregnancy * Refused to consent to this study