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Xiaobing Lu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Jiang Yue Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Qianjing Liu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Shengyun He Department of Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Ying Dong Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Ming Zhang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Yicheng Qi Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Minglan Yang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Wang Zhang Department of Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Hua Xu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Qing Lu Department of Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Jing Ma Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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consecutive treatment-naïve Chinese outpatients with obesity, including 80 males and 40 females, from Renji Hospital Endocrine Department (Shanghai, China) from September 2019 to December 2020 (ChiCTR2200066123). All the patients underwent clinical

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Marie Auzanneau Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, ZIBMT, Medical Faculty of Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

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Alexander J Eckert Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, ZIBMT, Medical Faculty of Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

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Andreas Fritsche German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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Martin Heni Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Department for Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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Andrea Icks German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
Institute of Health Services Research and Health Economics, Center for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Institute of Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Centre for Diabetes Research at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Annabel S Mueller-Stierlin Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University Hospital Ulm, Um, Germany
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, University Hospital Ulm, Um, Germany

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Ana Dugic Department of Gastroenterology, Klinikum Bayreuth, Medizincampus Oberfranken der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Bayreuth, Germany

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Alexander Risse Diabetes Center at Sophie-Charlotte-Platz, Diabetes Foot Unit, Berlin, Germany

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Stefanie Lanzinger Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, ZIBMT, Medical Faculty of Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

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Reinhard W Holl Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, ZIBMT, Medical Faculty of Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

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) were excluded. Cases with unknown sex (overall less than 0.02% of all inpatient cases: n  = 285 in 2015; n  = 175 in 2016; n  = 1073 in 2017; n  = 2790 in 2018; n  = 0 in 2019; n  = 0 in 2020) were assigned to the female cases since it was the

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Yunyi Ding Department of Nephrology, Hangzhou TCM Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China

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Siyao Lv Department of Gastroenterology, Hangzhou TCM Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China

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Ruijie Xie Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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Wei Ye Department of Gastroenterology, Hangzhou TCM Hospital, Hangzhou, China

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Yichen Luo School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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Yayu Li Department of Nephrology, Hangzhou TCM Hospital, Hangzhou, China

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mean age was 48.86 ± 17.00 years. The gender distribution was in a generally homogeneous manner, of which 49.47% were males and 50.53% were females. The overall prevalence of DKD in T2D was 20.74% (weighted proportion). The findings suggest that CKD

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Zhiyan Yu Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Yueyue Wu Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Rui Zhang Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Yue Li Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Shufei Zang Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Jun Liu Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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were considered to be in the menopause. In total, 1045 patients were excluded for the following reasons: premenopausal female ( n   = 239); male age below 50 years ( n   = 156); presence of viral liver disease or autoimmune hepatitis ( n   = 171

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Clemens Kamrath Center of Child and Adolescent Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

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Alexander Eckert German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, ZIBMT, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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Birgit Rami-Merhar Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Sebastian Kummer Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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Martin Wabitsch Center for Rare Endocrine Diseases, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany

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Katharina Laubner Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Medicine II, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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Florian Kopp Forth Clinical Department of Medicine, Academic Teaching Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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Silvia Müther Center for Pediatric Diabetology, DRK-Kliniken-Berlin Westend, Berlin, Germany

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Steffen Mühldorfer Department for Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Bayreuth University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bayreuth, Germany

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Reinhard W Holl German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, ZIBMT, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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.1) 14.4 (10.7; 33.8) 0.006 <0.001 ns <0.001 Female (%) 46.7 46.4 64.0 61.9 ns ns ns ns Age at last visit (years) 18.4 (15.4; 39.1) 70.1 (60.0; 78.1) 21.0 (17.9; 49.5) 21.1 (15.7; 44.1) ns <0.001 ns <0

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Philippe Jean-Luc Gradidge Centre for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Nicole G Jaff Department of Chemical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Shane A Norris SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Global Health Research Institute, School of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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Marketa Toman Department of Chemical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Nigel J Crowther Department of Chemical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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associated with the presence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) ( 33 ), but it is not known whether the effects of leg and gluteofemoral fat on hepatic steatosis are mediated by adiponectin. A longitudinal study of 2683 lean, postmenopausal females

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Laura Hasse Department of Pediatric Dermatology and Allergology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Dagmar Jamiolkowski Department of Pediatric Dermatology and Allergology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Felix Reschke Department of Pediatric Diabetology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Kerstin Kapitzke Department of Pediatric Diabetology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Jantje Weiskorn Department of Pediatric Diabetology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Olga Kordonouri Department of Pediatric Diabetology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Torben Biester Department of Pediatric Diabetology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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Hagen Ott Department of Pediatric Dermatology and Allergology, Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult, Hannover, Germany

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. n (%) Age mean ( s.d .) Female n (%) BMI SDSmean (S.D.) BF % mean (S.D.) Hypertension n (%) Whole study population 103 (100) 11.6 (2.5) 42 (40.8) 2.6 (0.5) 35.4 (4.5) 49 (47.5) <10 years 24 (23) 8.5 (1

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Yansu Wang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Yun Shen Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Tingting Hu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Yufei Wang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Xiaojing Ma Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Haoyong Yu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Yuqian Bao Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

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Objective

Clusterin is closely correlated with insulin resistance and its associated comorbidities. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between serum clusterin levels and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and further explore the mediating role of insulin resistance in this relationship.

Methods

This study enrolled 195 inpatients (41 males and 154 females) aged 18–61 years. Twenty-four patients were followed up for 12 months after bariatric surgery. Serum clusterin levels were measured using a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Fatty liver disease was diagnosed on the basis of liver ultrasonography. The fatty liver index (FLI) was calculated to quantify the degree of hepatic steatosis. The mediating role of homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was assessed using mediation analysis.

Results

Participants with NAFLD had significantly higher serum clusterin levels than those without NAFLD (444.61 (325.76–611.52) mg/L vs 294.10 (255.20–373.55) mg/L, P < 0.01). With increasing tertiles of serum clusterin levels, the prevalence of NAFLD displayed an upward trend (P < 0.01). Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that serum clusterin levels were a positive determinant of FLI (standardized β = 0.271, P < 0.001) after adjusting for multiple metabolic risk factors. Serum clusterin levels significantly decreased after bariatric surgery (298.77 (262.56–358.10) mg/L vs 520.55 (354.94–750.21) mg/L, P < 0.01). In the mediation analysis, HOMA-IR played a mediating role in the correlation between serum clusterin levels and FLI; the estimated percentage of the total effect was 17.3%.

Conclusion

Serum clusterin levels were associated with NAFLD. In addition, insulin resistance partially mediated the relationship between serum clusterin levels and FLI.

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Wei Liu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Yunke Ma Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Xiaoling Cai Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Yu Zhu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Mingxia Zhang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Juan Li Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Jing Chen School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Dawei Shi School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Linong Ji Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Objective

To explore the relationship between C-peptide secretion and time in range (TIR) in adult patients with type 1 diabetes.

Methods

From December 2018 to December 2020, 76 type 1 diabetes participants were enrolled from the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Peking University People’s Hospital. All participants wore intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring (isCGM), and insulin dosage was adjusted according to standardized clinical procedures. Subjects were divided into low C-peptide group (<10 pmol/L) and preserved C-peptide group (10–200 pmol/L) based on fasting serum C-peptide levels. Differences of TIR, metrics related to glucose variability and hypoglycemic events were compared.

Results

A total of 94,846 isCGM values obtained from 39 male and 37 female participants were analyzed. Individuals with preserved C-peptide secretion had shorter diabetes duration (2.0 (0.5, 10.0) vs 10.0 (3.0, 18.3) years, P = 0.002). TIR was higher in the individuals with preserved C-peptide than those with decreased C-peptide (67.1% (54.2, 75.8) vs 45.5% (33.9, 56.1), P < 0.001), and time above range was significantly lower in those with preserved C-peptide (28.0% (15.6, 42.4) vs 49.4% (39.1, 64.2), P < 0.001). Preserved C-peptide was associated with lower glucose variability, as defined by s.d. (3.0 mmol/L (2.6, 3.4) vs 3.8 mmol/L (3.2, 4.3), P < 0.001) and interquartile range (4.3 mmol/L (3.1, 4.8) vs 5.3 mmol/L (4.5, 6.3), P < 0.001). Metrics related to hypoglycemia were not different between the two groups.

Conclusion

Preserved C-peptide secretion was associated with higher TIR and lower glucose variability in Chinese type 1 diabetes adults.

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Zhou Zheng Department of Medical Laboratory, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Xiuming Zhang Department of Medical Laboratory, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Fanggui Wu Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Haizhen Liao Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Huan Zhao Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Minqi Zhang Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Shangjie Liu Department of Reproductive Medicine, The Affiliated Luohu Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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female reproductive system that results in failure to conceive after 12 months or longer of natural fertilization ( 10 ). According to estimates by the World Health Organization, about one in six couples of reproductive age worldwide may need assisted

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