Assessment of Metabolic Profiles of Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Patiens Withe Type 2 Diabetes

The prevalence of lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) in patients with diabetes increases significantly and are characterized with obvious arteriosclerosis that are caused by multiple metabolic disorders. Metabolomics measures the metabolites in biological fluids or tissues that generated under certain conditions via rapidly evolving high-throughput technology. Herein, the investigators designed the study to characterize the serum metabolic profiles of LEAD patients and identify metabolic biomarkers using metabolomics. The serum of volunteers, type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) patients with or without LEAD were collected and analyzed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry(LC-MS) coupled with a series of multivariate statistical analyses.