Serum sialic acid in South Indian Type 2 diabetic patients with microvascular complications
✍ Scribed by Vijay, V.; Snehalatha, C.; Ramachandran, A.; Jayaraman, M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 25 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-3071
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✦ Synopsis
LETTER
mmol l -1 , p = 0.012) in comparison with predictor of diabetic complications is limited. normal controls (2.31 ± 0.32 mmol l -1 ). LETTER Sialic acid values were higher than the healthy controls in the 38 normoalbumin-V. Vijay, C. Snehalatha, A. Ramachanduric, 33 microalbuminuric, and 37 proran, M. Jayaraman teinuric diabetic patients (2.5 ± 0.66, Diabetes Research Centre, No. 4 Main 2.95 + 1.06, 2.48 ± 0.68 mmol l -1 , Road, Royapuram, Chennai 600 013. respectively) but a significantly higher India Serum Sialic Acid in South Indian Type value was present only in the microal-2 Diabetic Patients with Microvascular buminuric group (p Ͻ 0.05). We did not Complications observe a linear correlation between log SSA and log A/C ratio. No correlation was seen between log SSA and the It is reported that serum sialic acid (SSA) is increased in Type 2 diabetes mellitus presence of retinopathy (n = 40). SSA