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Background: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease known by chronic hyperglycemia which results from defective insulin action and secretion. Various studies have documented liver disease as a major cause of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. It is well known that the liver plays an important role in the maintenance of normal glucose leve...
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... in mean values between the groups were measured using an independent t-test. Table 3 reports the activity of liver enzymes according to the gender of the patients.The activity of ALP and GGT reported a significant difference between the age groups of the patients, while the BMI, AST, and ALT were insignificantly different.Furthermore, Table 4 shows the correlation between liver enzymes and HbA1c. No association between the activity of GGT, ALT, ALP, and HbA1c was observed, while aweak negative correlation between AST activity and HbA1c was detected. ...Similar publications
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Background: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease known as chronic hyperglycemia, resulting from defective insulin action and secretion. Various studies have documented liver disease as a major cause of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. Notably, the liver plays an important role in the maintenance of normal glucose levels duri...
