An association of serum vistafin level and number of circulating endothelial progenitor cells in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

We found that elevated level of vistafin was an independent predictor for declined numerous of non-classical EPCs labeled as CD14+CD309+ and CD14+CD309+Tie2+, whereas CD34+ subsets of EPCs did not associate with vistafin level in T2DM individuals.