lron, Copper and Some Antioxidants Con-centrations in Type Il Diabetes Mellitus

In the present study. serum copper. re-ruloplasmin, uric and, iron. unsaturated iron bin-ding capacity (UIBC), total iron hinding capacity (TIBC), transferrin and % transferrin saturation le-vels of patients with type II diahetes mellitus and he-althy controls were investigated. Patients were con-sisted of 27 cases (12 male, 15 female) aged 34 - 77 years and controls consisted of 22 subjects (10 male, 12 female) aged 30 - 74 years. Serum ceruloplasmin concentrations of diahetics was significantly increased compared ta that of he-alty controls (p: 0.01). There was no signıficant dif-ference hetween the other parameters. The un-derlying mechanism of increased ceruloplasmin level of diahetic patients is not known. The results are discussed in •iew of literature findings.