High circulating fibroblast growth factor-21 levels as a screening marker in fatty pancreas patients

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Introduction

Material and Methods

Study population

Diagnosis of fatty pancreas and fatty liver

Anthropometric and biochemical findings

Measurement of FGF-21 and adipocytokine levels in human serum

Statistical analysis

Results

Basic and clinical characteristics of the study population

Comparison of serum FGF-21 and adipocytokine levels

Fatty pancreas prediction analysis

Discussion

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

The levels of serum FGF21 and adipocytokine levels in male and female with FP

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15176/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Fei Han conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Ling Yin conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Xiaoping Yu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Renyan Xu performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Mingxiang Tian conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Xinnong Liu performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Lu Zhou performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Lianghao Hu conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Weijuan Gong conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Weiming Xiao conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Guotao Lu conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Guanghuai Yao conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Yanbing Ding conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The study was approved by Ethics Committee of Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University (Ethical Application Ref: 2018-YKL11-27-topic1). All participants agreed to participate in the study, and written informed consent was obtained from each subject.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data is available in the Supplementary File.

Funding

This work was supported by the Key Project for Social Development in Jiangsu Province (No. BE2019698), Strengthening Health Care via Science and Education Project and Clinical Medical Innovation Platform Foundation of Yangzhou (No. YXZX20184) and Major public health projects in Yangzhou: Screening projects of early gastrointestinal diseases (2018). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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