Complement C3 is a risk factor for the development of diabetes: a population-based cohort study.
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...Second, elevated C3 levels were associated with incident type 2 diabetes in our study population, which confirms results from a population-based cohort study in Sweden (Engström et al. 2005)....
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...(Engstrom et al., 2005), these proteins were also found to be involved in atherosclerosis, although their...
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...While C1qb is a clinical predictor (Peters et al., 2017) and C3 a risk factor for type 2 diabetes (Engstrom et al., 2005), these proteins were also found to be involved in atherosclerosis, although their role is still controversial....
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...Prospective studies have shown fasting serum complement C3 levels predict incident T2D (16)....
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...Higher systemic C3 concentrations have been associated with several diabetes risk factors, including obesity, insulin resistance and NAFLD,(137,138) and were shown to be independently associated with incidence of T2D, at least in men.(139) Various lines of evidence suggest a biologically relevant,...
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