Table 2.

Results of indirect pancreatic function tests in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Author	Year	Subjects/diabetes type	Methods	Results
Hardt and Kloer [23]	1998	128 type 1+2	Fecal chymotrypsin Fecal elastase 1	45% <6 U/I 46% <200 μg/g
Hardt et al. [15]	2000	39 type 1 77 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	74% <200 μg/g 36% <200 μg/g
Icks et al. [18]	2001	112 type 1	Fecal elastase 1	54.5% <200 μg/g
Rathmann et al. [17]	2001	544 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	30.3% <200 μg/g
Hardt et al. [16]	2003	323 type 1 697 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	51% <200 μg/g 35% < 200 μg/g
Nunes et al. [24]	2003	42 type 1+2	Fecal elastase 1	36% <200 μg/g
Yilmaztepe et al. [25]	2005	32 type 2	Fecal elastase 1	28% <200 μg/g
Cavalot et al. [19]	2004	66 type 1	Fecal elastase 1	26% <200 μg/g