[Vitamins A, E and leptin in obese and non-insulin-dependent diabetes].

Background: At the obese ones, there is an imbalance between the free defenses antioxydants and radicals from where the installation of an oxydative stress, responsible for the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes.

Aim: Our objectives was to evaluate the levels of vitamins A, E and of leptin, to search the link witch could exist between vitamins and leptin.

Methodology: We proportioned the rates in vitamins A, E and in leptine at 30 obese subjects diabetic of type 2 including 12 men and 18 women of average age (50.