Inverse Association of Plasma Vanadium Levels with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in a Chinese Population

Vanadium compounds have been proposed to have beneficial effects on the pathogenesis and complications of type 2 diabetes. Our objective was to evaluate the association between plasma vanadium levels and type 2 diabetes. We performed a case-control study involving 1,598 Chinese subjects with or without newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (December 2004–December 2007). Cases and controls were frequency-matched by age and sex. Plasma vanadium...