Research Article
The Correlation between Type 2 Diabetes and Fat Fraction in Liver and Pancreas: A Study using MR Dixon Technique
Table 5
Comparison between T2DM patients and volunteers with normal liver fat content.
| | Volunteers | T2DM patients | |
| FBG (mmol/l) | 5.12 ± 0.68 | 8.55 ± 3.48 | <0.001 | HDL (mmol/l) | 1.54 ± 0.83 | 1.23 ± 0.43 | 0.049 | LDL (mmol/l) | 2.86 ± 0.91 | 2.90 ± 0.91 | 0.859 | TG (mmol/l) | 1.25 ± 0.66 | 1.36 ± 0.77 | 0.549 | CHOL (mmol/l) | 4.53 ± 1.00 | 4.48 ± 0.98 | 0.844 | FF of pancreas head (%) | 6.36 ± 3.61 | 7.83 ± 4.11 | 0.120 | FF of pancreas neck (%) | 7.49 ± 3.05 | 8.35 ± 4.53 | 0.373 | FF of pancreas body (%) | 7.30 ± 3.19 | 8.08 ± 3.40 | 0.327 | FF of pancreas tail (%) | 7.41 ± 2.28 | 9.83 ± 5.29 | 0.009 | FFWP (%) | 7.14 ± 2.38 | 8.52 ± 3.00 | 0.040 | Average diameter of pancreas (cm) | 1.64 ± 0.30 | 1.64 ± 0.31 | 0.906 | SAT (cm2) | 93.35 ± 45.30 | 91.63 ± 44.93 | 0.874 | VAT (cm2) | 65.62 ± 48.22 | 100.58 ± 63.65 | 0.014 | TAT (cm2) | 158.97 ± 82.63 | 192.21 ± 81.09 | 0.093 |
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