Maheen Saad, Mohammad Israr, Muhammad Faheem, Talha Laique.
Relationship Between Resistin and Lipid Profile among Type 2 Diabetics.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;15(1):486-7.

Background: An adipokine, Resistin, is a cystein rich protein that is secreted by adipose tissue. Aim: To evaluate the relation between resistin and lipid profile among control and diabetic groups. Study design: Cross-sectional study. Methodology: Patients (n=100) each group were enrolled to carry-out present study at Ayub Medical Complex (AMC) Abbotabad. All the analytical work was performed for 6 months by keeping confidence interval 95%. Informed consent was taken from all of them. Student`s-t test was applied with P-value < 0.05 as significant. Results: The mean ages of patients in group-A and group-B were 61.7+-11.26 and 60.1+-12.06 years respectively. The lipid profile was deranged among diabetics when compared with control having significant P-value. The diabetic group showed significantly higher levels of BMI as compared to the control group. Conclusion: It was concluded that resistin has a strong positive association (p < 0.001) with lipid profile among diabetics while positively associated only with LDL-C (R .358) among non-diabetics.

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