Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Cardiovascular Disease

Table 3

Diabetes and EPCs.

Study	Population	Effect on EPCs number
Loomans et al. [51]	T1DM	↓ in culture
Kusuyama et al. [52]	T1DM	↓ in culture
Egan et al. [53]	T2DM	↓ EPCs
Lombardo et al. [55]	T2DM	↓ EPCs
Asnaghi et al. [56]	T1DM retinopathy	↑ EPCs
	T1DM no-retinopathy	↓ EPCs
Brunner et al. [57]	T2DM retinopathy without macrovascular complications	↓ EPCs
	T2DM retinopathy with macrovascular complications	↑ EPCs

T1DM: type 1 diabetes mellitus, T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus.