%0 Journal Article %T Higher serum betatrophin level in type 2 diabetes subjects is associated with urinary albumin excretion and renal function %A Chang-Chiang Chen %A Chih-Hong Wang %A Hendra Susanto %A Ta-Yu Liu %A Wen-Han Chuang %J Archive of "Cardiovascular Diabetology". %D 2016 %R 10.1186/s12933-015-0326-9 %X Betatrophin is a newly identified liver-derived hormone that is associated with glucose homeostasis and lipid metabolism. Although dysregulated lipid metabolism results in diabetic nephropathy (DN) development in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), it is not understood whether betatrophin is associated with urinary albumin excretion and renal function %K Betatrophin %K Type 2 diabetes %K Diabetic nephropathy %K ACR %K eGFR %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704426/