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β-thromboglobulin and fibrinopeptide a in diabetes mellitus as markers of vascular damage

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β-thromboglobulin (BTG) and fibrinopeptide A (FpA) were studied in 68 non-insulin dependent diabetic patients (NIDD) aged 32–81 with a mean duration of diabetes of 9±0.8 SEM years and 44 healthy controls, comparable for age and sex. Diabetic patients were subdivided into subsets according to the presence of microvascular disease, macrovascular disease or the absence of these lesions. Patients with microangiopathy (micro- and/or macrovascular disease) had higher HbA (p<0.01), higher blood pressure (p<0.05) than both healthy controls and uncomplicated diabetics. Plasma BTG was higher in diabetic patients than in healthy controls (p<0.02), and was higher in complicated than in non-complicated diabetic subjects. Fpa was higher in complicated than in non-complicated diabetes (p<0.05). No differences were observed between the two subsets of complicated patients. In conclusion, we have shown that increased plasma- and platelet-BTG levels are present in non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects, with normal renal function and that plasma BTG is higher in patients with than in those without vascular disease. Fibrinopeptide A, a sensitive marker ofin vivo fibrin formation, was significantly increased in NIDD with vascular complications.

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  1. Istittuto Scientifico S. Raffaele, Clinica Medica VIII, Università di Milano, Milano

    Maria Cristina Librenti, Armando D’Angelo, Piero Micossi, Barbara Garimberti & Guido Pozza

  2. Clinica Medica III, Centro per l’Emofilia e la Trombosi ‘Angelo Bianchi Bonomi’, Università di Milano, Milano

    Pier Mannuccio Mannucci

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This study was supported by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Grant N. 184066 and by the National Research Council of Italy,Progetto Finalizzato di Medicina Preventiva e Riabilitativa, Sottoprogetto 4.

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Librenti, M.C., D’Angelo, A., Micossi, P. et al. β-thromboglobulin and fibrinopeptide a in diabetes mellitus as markers of vascular damage. Acta diabet. lat 22, 39–45 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02591091

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