NCT01372852

Plasma Adiponectin Concentration, Activity and Isoforms in Newly Diagnosed and Untreated Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Plasma Adiponectin Concentration, Activity and Isoforms in Newly Diagnosed and Untreated T2DM Patients in Chinese Population

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Xijing Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of present study were to compare plasma adiponectin isoform status, their bioactivities newly diagnosed Chinese with healthy volunteer.

Detailed description

Adiponectin, circulates as trimer, hexamer and high molecular weight form (HMW) in human blood, is a promising biomarker for indication diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Both adiponectin complexes concentration and their bioactivities are decreased in pathological state. Disulfide-bond A oxidoreductase-like protein (DsbA-L) is a key regulator for adiponectin biosynthesis and its expression level is down-regulated in obese mice and humans. However, the alteration of circulating adiponectin multimers distribution, their bioactivities and adiponectin regulator, DsbA-L level, in newly diagnosed Chinese type 2 diabetes patients are unknown. The objective of present study were to compare plasma adiponectin isoform status, their bioactivities and DsbA-L concentration in newly diagnosed Chinese with healthy volunteer.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-06-14
• Last updated: 2011-06-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China