ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the changes of plasma adiponectin concentration in type 2 diabetic patients with macrovascular complications.Methods Forty-nine cases of type 2 diabetic patients with macrovascular complications,fifty-four cases of type 2 diabetic patients without macrovascular complications and thirty-five healthy people were investigated.Their plasma adiponectin levels was assayed.Meanwhile,the levels of blood pressure,plasma glucose,lipids and C-peptide were measured.The plasma adiponectin levels among three groups were compared,and the factors affecting the plasma adiponectin were analyzed.Results The plasma adiponectin levels in the group of type 2 diabetes without macrovascular complications were lower than in the control group and were the lowest in the group of type 2 diabetes with macrovascular complications.The plasma adiponectin levels of these three groups were (16.37?3.03)mg/L,(6.69?4.42)mg/L,(4.08?3.24)mg/L,respectively.The differences among the three groups were statistically significant (P