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Serum carbohydrate antigen 153 and renal function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
You-Fan Peng1, Hao Lin2, Man-Man Han1
1Department of Endocrinology, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Objective:
The aim of our study was to investigate the correlation between serum carbohydrate antigen 153 (CA153) and renal function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Methods:
A total of 184 patients with T2DM were included, and renal function was assessed by the modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD) formula adjusted coefficient of the Chinese people.
Results:
Serum CA153 concentrations were positively correlated with blood glucose (BG) and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) (r = .204, P = .005; r = .165, P = .025) in patients with T2DM. There was a negative correlation between serum CA153 and estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (r = -.229, P = .002) in whole patients with T2DM; similarly, the correlations were observed in both women and men (r = -.228, P = .028 for women, r = -.231, P = .028 for men). Multiple linear regression analysis suggested that serum CA153 was still significantly correlated with estimated GFR (beta = -0.286, P < .001).
Conclusions:
Serum CA153 is negatively correlated with estimated GFR in patients with T2DM, and serum CA153 may be a potentially useful clinical biomarker to assess renal function in the study population.
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