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Objective To investigate the expression levels of serum visfatin ,leptin and other indexes and their correlation and clinical significance in the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM ) .Methods Eighty-two age-matched and gender-matched cases of T2DM (T2DM group)and 71 cases of healthy subjects(health control group)were tested serum visfatin ,leptin ,insulin ,lipid and glycemia levels .Results The serum visfatin ,leptin ,triglycerides(TG) ,total cholesterol(TC) ,high-density lipoprotein choles-terol(HDL-C) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDC-C) ,fasting plasma glucose ,fasting insulin(FINS) ,homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance(OMA-IR) ,2 h FPG ,2 h FINS had statistically significant differences between the T 2DM group and the health control group(P< 0 .05);the stepwise regression analysis showed that visfatin were positively correlated with BMI , FINS ,HOMA-IR ,TC ,TG ,LDL-C (P<0 .05)and negatively correlated with HDL-C(P<0 .05);leptin were positively correlated with BMI ,FINS ,HOMA-IR(P<0 .05) .Conclusion Serum visfatin and leptin in the T2DM patients are hither than those in the healthy subjects and closely related with blood lipid ,blood glucose and insulin ,which may become the new diagnostic indexes of T2DM .