Association of APOE polymorphisms and insulin resistance with TCM syndromes in type 2 diabetes patients with macroangiopathy

60 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) macroangiopathy (mean age 68.33±9.07 years) and 20 healthy controls (mean age 37.23±7.23 years) from China.

Healthy controls and comparisons between three Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome groups (dryness-heat due to deficiency of yin, Qi-Yin deficiency, and Yin-Yang deficiency).

Association of APOE genotypes and allele frequencies with TCM syndromes.surrogate