title: Causality relationships between coagulation factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus: path analysis approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Type 2 diabetic mellitus patients are amongst the most susceptible groups to vascular abnormalities, which predominantly lead to myocardial disease. The hypercoagulable state has been widely studied by researchers as being the major suspicious mechanism facilitating the consecutive chain of molecular events leading to these complications. However, there is no consensus on the definition of the hypercoagulable state with respect to coagulation quantities, their interrelations and basic factor(s) initiating this pathogenic event, by which the prognosis of myocardial complications could be determined.
  
  
  METHODS
  Path analysis was used to study the interactions between coagulation factors as well as other factors beyond coagulation factors in relation with pathogenic events in both diabetics and healthy subjects. In the present work, coagulation factors of 40 healthy and 40 type 2 diabetics were determined experimentally. The data were then analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software. Multivariate regression analysis was done to draw path diagrams.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our results show that FII, as the main cause for hypercoagulable state, is directly induced by FX and FVIII in normal individuals and by FX, FXI, FV and VWF cofactors in diabetic patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In general, our findings showed complicated relationship between coagulation factors and their effects either separately or combined.
authors.affiliation: 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran. mrdayer@scu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mohammad Reza
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Dayer
authors.affiliation: 2. Medical Education Development Center, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran. maysam.mardsoltani@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Maysam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mard-Soltani
authors.affiliation: 3. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. dayer@modares.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mohammad Saaid
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Dayer
authors.affiliation: 4. Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran. alavi_m@scu.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Sayed Mohammad Reza
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Alavi
keywords: Coagulation Factors; Hypercoagulable State; Myocardial Infarction; Path analysis; vascular Complication