“…Numbers of molecular epidemiological studies have been performed to examine the relationship between the ACE I/D polymorphism and DR [14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55], but the results remain inconclusive. Although several meta-analyses have been published [56,57], they still did not reach a consistent conclusion.…”