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[Determination of the concentration of serum free fatty acids in type 2 diabetic]
1Department of Clinical Laboratory, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, China. Binbiyi@hotmail.com
Objective:
To evaluate the diagnostic value of serum free fatty acids (FFA) concentration in type 2 diabetics.
Methods:
The concentration of serum free fatty acids in type 2 diabetics were measured by enzymology in Hitachi 7170A automatic analyzer, and compared with that of surgical patients without diabetes mellitus.
Results:
FFA level of type 2 diabetic (0.6268 +/- 0.2971) mmol/L was higher than that of the comparison (0.5333 +/- 0.2230) mol/L (P <0.05).
Conclusion:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus could cause the increase of the serum free fatty acids,and hyperlipidemia, specially. High free fatty acids disease was one of the risky factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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