Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research
Study of Serum Zinc Levels in Newly Detected type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and it's Correlation with HbA1c
A Manjula , Sandeep Ganga , Sumaiya Anjum
JCDR. 2023: 498-505
Abstract
Background: Hyperglycemia is considered as a primary culprit of diabetic complications and is associated with increased metabolic processes and oxidative stress. Both micro vascular and macro vascular complications in diabetes are related to oxidative stress and zinc has antioxidant properties delaying the diabetic complications Objective: To study the levels of serum zinc and HbA1c in newly detected type 2 diabetes mellitus, To correlate between serum zinc levels and HbA1c in predicting the importance of zinc levels for glycemic control.
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