Study of Correlation between Diabetic Pulmonopathy with Serum Adiponectin Levels in Patients of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Diabetes mellitus a disease with various macro and micro vascular complications due to its various metabolic dysregulations, is well known to involve lungs in long run in both type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus, causing tremendous burden on health care system. Common simple lung function tests alone are likely to underestimate the prevalence and degree of lung dysfunction in diabetes, but newer noninvasive tests of lung mechanical function provide a more sensitive assessment of peripheral airway function, hence by establishing a marker and risk factors for pulmonary involvement in diabetic individuals, cases with high risk for pulmonary involvement can be found before hand and proper medical therapy can be started for primary prophylaxis of same, Hence in this study we tried to find out any correlation between serum adiponectin levels and pulmonary dysfunction in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus, which shows a significant role of adiponectin as early marker of the disease with p value of 0.04, the decrease in serum adiponectin level is also associated with more severe disease, hence adiponectin levels can be used as early markers of pulmonary dysfunction in diabetic patients.