Relationship between C-peptide and artherosclerosis in lower extremity in patients with type 2 diabetes
CUI Qi
YANG Chun-jie
CAO Gui-wen
ZHOU Hong
Abstract：Objective To investigate the relationship between C-peptide and artherosclerosis in lower ex-tremity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods Two hundred and fourteen type 2 diabetic patients were included in this retrospective study. They were divided into two groups:type 2 diabetes with artherosclerosis in lower extremi-ty in 123 cases and type 2 diabetes without artherosclerosis in lower extremity in 91 cases. Their medical history and the laboratory data were collected such as fasting serum C-peptide levels and postprandial serum C-peptide levels of 1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and so on. Results Compared with artherosclerosis group in lower extremity, the age, duration of diabetes, total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), glycated hemoglobin and smoking rate were significantly higher in type 2 diabetes without artherosclero-sis in lower extremity (P < 0.05). However, the high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) was much lower in the last group (P<0.05). There were no significant differences in the other indicators between the two groups (P>0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that fasting and postprandial (1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours)serum C-pep-tide levels were all negatively related to artherosclerosis in lower extremity (OR 0.524,P = 0; OR 0.440, P = 0;OR 0.688, P=0;OR 0.795, P=0). Conclusions Serum C-peptide level may be an independent associated fac-tor with artherosclerosis in lower extremity in type 2 diabetes.
Keywords：Type 2 diabetesC-peptideArtherosclerosis of lower extremity
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 3869-3872 )