Trace elements and risk of diabetes-related vascular complications: results from the EPIC-Potsdam cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The trace elements selenium, zinc, copper, manganese, iodine, and iron are crucial for various physiological processes, including enzymatic reactions and immune responses. Dyshomeostasis of trace elements is associated with a variety of diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It has not been clarified whether blood trace elements associate with the risk of diabetes-related vascular complications. We aimed to investigate the prospective associations between pre-diagnosis serum levels of trace elements with vascular complications in diabetes.

Methods

Participants with incident diabetes and free of micro- and macrovascular disease and with pre-diagnostic serum trace element measurements from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutr

SUBMITTER: Eroglu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12291520 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature