Abstract:Objective To investigate the relationship between expression of serum TXNIP, Trx and PKCβ1 and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods A total of 114 T2DM patients treated in our hospital from April 2015 to May 2017 were included in the observation group. According to the presence or absence of carotid intimal thickening, they were divided into two groups: intimal thickening sub-group (83 cases) and non-thickening intima sub-group (31 cases), and the other 114 cases of healthy subjects in the same period were included in the control group. The differences of sex composition, age, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, smoking status, hypertension, fasting blood glucose, triglycerides, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, total cholesterol, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), TXNIP, Trx, PKCβ1 and carotid IMT were compared. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify independent risk factors affecting carotid IMT. The correlation between TXNIP, Trx and PKCβ1 and carotid IMT was further confirmed by Spearman correlation analysis. Results For the fasting blood glucose, HbA1c, TXNIP, Trx, PKCβ1and carotid IMT value, the indicators of the observation group were higher than those of the control group (P < 0.05), and those of the intimal thickening sub-group were higher than those of non-thickening intimal sub-group (P < 0.05). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that HbA1c [Ol^R=1.242, 95% CI (1.104, 1.457)], TXNIP [Ol^R=1.794, 95% CI (1.382, 2.351)], Trx [Ol^R=1.537, 95% CI (1.343, 2.185)] and PKCβ1 [Ol^R=1.321, 95% CI (1.132, 1.646)] were independent risk factors of carotid artery IMT. At the same time, TXNIP, Trx and PKCβ1 showed positive correlation with carotid IMT (r = 0.586, 0.368, 0.413, P = 0.013, 0.029, 0.032). Conclusions TXNIP, Trx and PKCβ1 are independent risk factors of carotid artery IMT, and have positive correlation with the latter.