ea0037ep421 | Diabetes (complications & therapy) | ECE2015
Shelbaya Salah
, Sayed Rania
, Nasr Merhan
, Abd El Aziz Ahmed
Background: Diabetes is a risk factor for both PAD and PAD-associated mortality. Diabetic patients have worse arterial disease and a poorer outcome than nondiabetic patients. Fetuins are blood proteins made in the liver more abundant in fetal blood. Fetuin-A is regarded as an inhibitor of systemic calcification.Aim of this work: To assess the relationship between plasma fetuin-A levels and peripheral vascular disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus.<p cl...