Association of complement C3 with incident type 2 diabetes and the mediating role of BMI: A 10-year follow-up study.
Jing JiangHao WangKang LiuShiqi HeZhaoyang LiYu YuanKuai YuPinpin LongJing WangTingyue DiaoXiaomin ZhangMeian HeHuan GuoTangchun WuPublished in: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2022)
The present prospective study revealed that C3 could be an early biomarker for incident T2DM, and that BMI might play a potential mediating role in the C3-T2DM associations, which provided clues for the pathogenesis of diabetes.