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Journal of Chinese Physician
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(12)2001.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-522743
ABSTRACT
Objective To study the relationship between serum level of tumor necrosis factor-?(TNF-?)and insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods by using the homeostasis model assessment (Homa-R), 20 patients with insulin resistance(IR group) and 20 patients with non-insulin resistance(NIR group) were selected in this study, and 20 age and BMI-matched healthy subjects were also recruited as control group. Serum levels of insulin, TNF-?, lipids, apolipoprotein and glucose were measured after overnight fasting. Results The serum level of TNF-? was significantly higher in the patients of IR group than that in the patients of NIR group and the subjects of control group(P