Review Article
The Relationship between Betatrophin Levels in Blood and T2DM: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Characteristics of eligible studies included in the meta-analysis.
| First author | Publication year | Country | Sample | Methods | Cases | Controls | Subjects () | Betatrophin (Mean ± SD, pg/mL) | Subjects () | Betatrophin (Mean ± SD, pg/mL) |
| Fenzl [7] | 2014 | Germany | Plasma | ELISA | 18 | 1646.5 ± 551.12 | 19 | 1643.4 ± 1002.11 | Chen [8] | 2014 | China | Serum | ELISA | 112 | 798.6 ± 449.78 | 137 | 692.7 ± 339.44 | Espes [9] | 2014 | Sweden | Plasma | ELISA | 27 | 893 ± 415.69 | 18 | 639 ± 280.01 | Fu [10] | 2014 | USA | Serum | ELISA | 14 | 5560 ± 2731.41 | 15 | 2190 ± 929.52 | Hu [5] | 2014 | China | Serum | ELISA | 83 | 613.08 ± 65.15 | 83 | 296.57 ± 52.16 | Gómez-Ambrosi [6] | 2014 | Spain | Serum | ELISA | 15 | 13500 ± 8800 | 33 | 45100 ± 24400 | Wang [11] | 2015 | China | Serum | ELISA | 35 | 1123.52 ± 319.01 | 31 | 669.15 ± 318.16 | Xie [12] | 2014 | China | Serum | ELISA | 50 | 412.53 ± 237.67 | 50 | 306.20 ± 283.82 | Yamada [13] | 2015 | Japan | Serum | ELISA | 30 | 1614 ± 647 | 12 | 300 ± 236 | Guo [14] | 2015 | China | Serum | ELISA | 56 | 162.56 ± 42.25 | 60 | 123.52 ± 28.19 | Xie [15] | 2015 | China | Serum | ELISA | 50 | 833.45 ± 456.21 | 50 | 541.68 ± 136.2 |
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