Low plasma C4 concentrations: association with microangiopathy in insulin dependent diabetes.
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Low plasma C4 concentrations: association with microangiopathy in insulin dependent diabetes.
Plasma C4 concentrations were measured in insulin dependent diabetics with and without microangiopathy and in controls. The diabetics had significantly lower C4 values than controls (p less than 0.001), and patients with insulin dependent diabetes and microangiopathy had lower values than those without this complication (p less than 0.001). There was a 7.1-fold increase in the prevalence of com...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.289.6450.943